DRG Media Group Beyond the Mic podcasts

The majority of the soil in South Dakota is coming into the 2025 spring planting season being very short or short of moisture. In this episode of Agriculture In-depth, SDSU Extension State Climatologist Laura Edwards says the rain expected during the last few days of April 2025 will help, but the U.S. Drought Monitor shows there’s quite a bit of moisture deficit to make up for.

In this episode of DRG Media Group's Agriculture In-depth podcast features SDSU Extension State Climatologist Laura Edwards. She talks about spring weather models and what they show heading into spring planting Season in South Dakota.

Pierre Governor Head Coach, Steve Steele, joins the show to talk about the historic moment of Grey Zabel becoming the first Pierre Governor to get drafted into the NFL, what it means to the city and what his NFL career will look like. We also talk about the National Walleye Tour's first day out on Lake Sharpe, and the 3rd annual Sharpe Showdown coming up this weekend on this episode of Players Perspective.

We recap the dramatic finish to the 2025 Masters and I give you the perspective from the grounds of Augusta National. We also welcome on Pro Angler Thomas Huynh ahead of the National Walleye Tour coming to Pierre to compete on Lake Sharpe on this episode of Players Perspective.

(Masters recap 2:00-32:00)

(Thomas Huynh interview 32:00-1:14:00)

A new nationwide project called “Probing Our Country’s Soil Health” and is looking for 80 South Dakota farmers to participate. The project leaders are working to understand the status of soil health around the country and use that information to develop a new tool called Soil Health Assessment Protocol and Evaluation-- or SHAPE.

SHAPE is an online tool designed to interpret soil health measurements, monitor soil health change and offer management practice alternatives for improving soil health. The goal of the project is to collect 13,000 soil samples across the U.S. from approximately 6,000 fields, sampling different soil, climate and management conditions. The SHAPE tool will be available as a free web-based app for easy soil health scoring.

For more information, go to https://extension.sdstate.edu/news/80-south-dakota-farmers-needed-nationwide-soil-health-project-enroll-today or contact Jason Clark, SDSU Extension Soil Fertility Specialist, at Jason.D.Clark@sdstate.edu, or Hans Klopp, SDSU Extension Soil Health Specialist, at Hans.Klopp@sdstate.edu.