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����Ӱ��’s Department of Animal Science has been named the 2025 North American Limousin Foundation Promoter of the Year following its collaborative efforts in conducting a multiyear beef cattle research study.

Thirteen members of the Dairy Club at ����Ӱ�� recently traveled to Platteville, Wisconsin, to take part in the Midwest Regional American Dairy Science Association Undergraduate Student Division meeting, hosted by the Pioneer Dairy Club at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

Mount Rushmore. The Badlands. Bison. Three things that come to mind when thinking of South Dakota scenery. Of the 400,000 bison that currently live in North America, around 10% — nearly 40,000 — roam the state’s landscape. It makes sense then that the epicenter of bison research would also be here, where it can have the biggest impact.

When Erica Summerfield talks about the growth of ����Ӱ��’s agricultural communication program, one word keeps coming up: opportunity. That opportunity has reached a new level with the establishment of the Karen D. Stuck Endowment. On Sept. 25, during a special endowment ceremony, Summerfield, a second-year assistant professor, became the first-ever Karen D. Stuck Endowed Professor of Agricultural Communication.

The South Dakota Sheep Growers Association is partnering with the ����Ӱ�� Department of Animal Science and Jackrabbits Athletics to host the 34th annual Lamb Bonanza on Saturday, Jan. 31, at First Bank & Trust Arena in Brookings. The event coincides with the men’s basketball game against Oral Roberts at 2 p.m. CST.

More than half of South Dakota’s landscape, around 24 million acres, is covered with the most abundant ecosystem in the world, rangeland. More than pretty scenery, the complex and varied environment is home to relationships among plants, animals and soil that were formed over millennia to mutually thrive and now play a crucial part in the South Dakota way of life.

Since the 1940s, the range degree program at ����Ӱ�� has been preparing students for critical roles in conservation and the agriculture industry. Today, the range specialization builds on that tradition to serve students with unique opportunities as one of only 14 accredited programs in the country.

During their first seminar, the 22 members of the South Dakota Agricultural and Rural Leadership Class XIII cohort visited the ����Ӱ�� College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences last week to learn about the wide-reaching impact of the college, and the university, on agriculture in the state of South Dakota.

����Ӱ�� Archives and Special Collections has some brand-new additions to its collection: More than 70 South Dakota brand books and other items from the history of branding in the state.

Four ����Ӱ�� students in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences have been awarded national bison industry scholarships from the Throlson American Bison Foundation and the Rich Zahringer Memorial Scholarship Fund.