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Last month, more than 60 supporters of the ����Ӱ�� Rodeo Team convened in Rapid City during the Black Hills Stock Show for the annual SDSU Rodeo Informational Breakfast. The team’s boosters hear inspiring stories from rodeo team members and distinguished guest speakers at the yearly celebration.

The Equine Teaching Facility and the Department of Animal Science at ����Ӱ�� will host an open house from 2:30-4 p.m. March 28 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the on-campus horse barn.

����Ӱ�� student Ella Stiefvater of Salem has been awarded a 2025 National Association of Farm Broadcasting Foundation scholarship, honoring her outstanding achievement and commitment to agricultural communications.

Kathy Stern, administrative assistant at the SDSU Extension Mitchell Regional Center, has been named ����Ӱ��’s Civil Service Employee of the Month for February.

In 2014, Jacob Englin walked across the graduation stage at ����Ӱ�� with a bachelor's degree in agricultural education and a dream to help shape the next generation of agricultural leaders. Over a decade later, he’s back at SDSU not as a student, but as a full-time assistant professor helping to guide the very program that once shaped him.

An addition to ����Ӱ��’s Swine Education and Research Facility has completed the final round of legislative approval. House Bill 1118, approving the design and construction for an expansion to the university’s existing swine wean-to-finish facility was signed into law Tuesday afternoon by Gov. Larry Rhoden.

Students from ����Ӱ�� are preparing to attend the annual Commodity Classic, the nation’s largest farmer-led and farmer-focused agricultural trade show, thanks to the continued generosity of alumni and industry donors.

����Ӱ�� students and faculty made their annual migration to the National Bison Association conference in Denver, Colorado, last month. More than just attending, the SDSU representatives made considerable contributions to meeting’s agenda from planning to presenting.

Ethan James, a junior agricultural business student at ����Ӱ��, has been selected as one of 41 Agriculture Future of America Ambassadors nationwide.

This is the Year of the Fire Horse, according to the Chinese zodiac, which means it’s the perfect time for the 2026 Harding Distinguished Lecture. Archeologist and author William Taylor will present “Horses and the Human Story in South Dakota and the American West: New Perspectives from the Ancient World.”