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Overview:
The Dakota Lakes Research Farm is a cooperative effort between South Dakota State University and the Dakota Lakes Research Farm Corporation, a not-for-profit corporation established by area farmers. This group owns the land, buildings, and other fixed assets. They work with the manager in prioritizing research projects and planning capital improvements. The funds needed to operate the research program at the center come from three main sources. They are provided by SDSU in several direct and indirect forms; some come from grants funded primarily through commodity checkoff programs; and the remaining resources are generated from profits stemming from the production enterprise at the Station. The production enterprise is managed so that the research program is optimized. That is the main purpose of the farm. Within this constraint, the goal is to make as much money as possible on the production enterprise and spend all of this money on research projects, facility improvements, and equipment purchases and upgrades. At the present time the operation consists of 3 quarters of land at the Main Station and 360 acres of land located at the North Unit. This land is along the East side of Canning Road approximately 4 miles North of the Main Station. The North Unit was purchased in 2000 to provide "West River" soils (Opal and Promise) for research purposes. During the 1990's this was done by renting land west of the Missouri River from a private landowner... | |
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