Cover of Report (JPG; 609KB)
Full report printable spread (PDF; 25MB)
Full report printable single sheet
(PDF; 40MB)
New Report Available “2019 South Dakota Cropping Systems Inventory”
The NRCS has tracked tillage systems and no-till for 37 years to help measure progress in the use of soil saving and soil building farming systems. The printed publication and orders for quantities can be requested from Tami Burmeister at (605) 352-1224 or tami.burmeister@usda.gov.
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2004-2019 Crop Systems table (PDF; 2972KB)
2004-2019 Crop Systems table (JPG; 302KB)
About 4 million acres went unplanted in South Dakota in 2019; no-till systems were used on 50% of the acres that were planted, matching all three tillage systems combined.
Graphic Courtesy USDA/NRCS, South Dakota
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Percentage of No-till by County in 2019 (JPG; 1678KB)
NO-TILL STILL STRONG IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA: Twenty counties, mostly in central South Dakota, now have three-quarters or more of the cropland farmed under no-till cropping systems.
Map COURTESY USDA/NRCS, South Dakota.
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Too Wet to Plant Infographic (JPG; 5,419KB)
"CSI TOO Wet to Plant" Infographic (includes map that shows, by county, acres that could not be planted in 2019.)
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