SDSPA Newsletter- January 2025
This SDSPA newsletter features:
- Vote for SD Specialty Crop Producer of the Year
- 2025 SDSPA Membership
- Annual Membership Meeting
- Upper Midwest Urban & Rural Ag Innovation Conference (UMURAI) Conference
- SDSPA Mentorship Group
- Introduction to the NRCS Conservation Plan
- SDSPA Promotes Specialty Crop Production at the Hot Springs Career Fair
- SDSPA Quarter 1 Organic Update
- South Dakota Grasslands Initiative Survey
- Women’s Ag Network Survey
- Find South Dakota Tea!
- Upcoming Webinar: Rotational Grazing
- Upcoming Webinar: Help! Assisting Urban Farmers and Where to Find Resources
- Upcoming Webinar: Tools of the Trade: Understanding Ag Equipment
- Upcoming Webinar: Transition or Organic Dairy
- Upcoming Webinar: Why & How to Plan a Silvopasture Program for Your Ag Operation
- Upcoming Webinar: Starting a Large Scale Composting Operation
- Upcoming Event: Ask the Organic Transition Advisor at the NPSAS Conference
- Upcoming Webinar: Local Food Aggregation: Exploring Models for Community-Based Supply Chains
- Upcoming Webinar: Organic Red Meat Processing
- Upcoming Webinar: Planning for a Market Garden: What to Grow & How Much
- SDSPA Cut Flower Growers Update
- SDSPA Fruit & Vegetable Growers Update
- S.D. Farmers Market Coalition Update
- SDSPA Organic Operators Update
- Video: The Haney Soil Test with Joe Ailts
- S.D. Farm to School Update
- SD Local Foods Coalition Strategic Planning
- Grants: Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) Program, Food Safety Certification for Specialty Crops (FSCSC) Program, USDA Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program
- Video: Cultivating Morel Mushrooms for Production
- Video: Moving Forward: Transitioning from Traditional to Regenerative Agriculture
- Video: Garden Friends and Foes
- Video: Seed Starting: Seed to Sprout
- Video: Profitability for Transitioning Organic Producers
- Video: Go Organic in South Dakota
- SDSPA Urban Ag Office Hours
- SDSPA Seeking Board Member
- Producer Spotlights: FWO Meats & Infinity Farms
SDSPA provides regular communications on current activities, news, events and trainings, resources and grant opportunities.