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South Dakota State University recently paid tribute to the university’s newest endowment holders. The third annual University Leadership Honors investiture ceremony — honoring six holders of endowed positions across three different colleges and ������Ƶ Athletics — was held Sept. 19 in Founders Recital Hall in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

The South Dakota Cattlemen’s Foundation was honored recently as the 2024 recipient of the South Dakota State University Friend of the Beef Industry award for its contributions to the South Dakota beef industry.

Leadership in agriculture begins at slat level, explained fifth-generation hog producer Steven Rommereim.

More than a century ago, Floyd Hansmeier’s Grandpa Henry hopped on a train in Iowa seeking adventure out West. As family lore goes, when the train stopped for the night in Bristol, South Dakota, Henry Hansmeier got a hotel room for the night, overslept, missed the train and never left Bristol.

Whether launching the “Dakota Farm Talk” radio program from the Geppert family farm 30 years before the term “remote work” was commonplace, fundraising for the South Dakota State Fair’s Nordby Exhibit Hall or helping start the Kimball FFA chapter — Pam (Walter) Geppert works hard to support South Dakota agriculture.

Advice Brad Greenway received from his college adviser 40 years ago guides him to this day. “He told me, ‘Don’t ever start something you are figuring on failing at,’” recalled the third-generation Mitchell farmer.

The South Dakota State University colleges of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences and Education and Human Sciences honor Brad Greenway, of Mitchell; Floyd Hansmeier, of Bristol; Steven Rommereim, of Alcester, and Pam Geppert, of Kimball, with the 2024 Eminent Leaders in Agriculture, Family and Community Award.

The South Dakota Corn Utilization Council is pleased to announce that it has committed $1.2 million toward an expansion of the Swine Education and Research Facility at South Dakota State University. The grant will fund the addition of two new wean-to-finish nutrition rooms to the existing complex and double the facility’s research capabilities.

A collaborative project from South Dakota State University, South Dakota Mines and Oglala Lakota College will develop novel algorithms needed for soil moisture mapping — an essential tool for helping farmers with their agricultural management decisions.

Bison specialists from across the United States and Canada gathered in Brookings recently for the second International Bison Health Symposium, attended by nearly 140 producers, veterinarians, tribal leaders, government officials, researchers and zoo managers.