Most people don't give much thought to the ground beneath their feet. But in South Dakota, that ground is kind of a big deal. A single teaspoon of healthy South Dakota soil contains more living organisms than there are people on Earth. It's not dirt. It's alive, and today we're celebrating it.

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Hugh Hammond Bennett Award Winner, Shane Jordan  Please join SDACD in congratulating Shane Jordan, Resource Conservationist with USDA-NRCS in Clark, SD, on being named the national winner of the 2025 Hugh Hammond Bennett Award for Conservation Excellence . This award recognizes exceptional conservation planning and the kind of steady, relationship-based work that creates real, lasting improvements on the land. Over the course of his career, Shane has helped producers turn their goals into...