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Go to DakotaSARE.info for more information about SARE in the Dakotas! |
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| In South Dakota, a travel scholarship to an educator to attend a grant writing workshop in the fall of 2006 provided new information and the enthusiasm to organize an organic steering committee and organic training in eastern SD. More than 30 educators and farmers attended the 2 day training that was supported by NE, IA and SD State SARE programs.
Frank Kutka has been the State Sustainable Agriculture Coordinator for North and South Dakota since 2005. He is also Assistant Director of the Dickinson Research Extension Center. Frank grew up in southeastern Wisconsin and after completing degrees at the University of Wisconsin -Whitewater (biology) and at Iowa State (animal ecology), he and his wife Grace purchased a farm in northeast Minnesota. While in Minnesota, Frank worked for the University of Minnesota Natural Resources Research Institute doing aquatic ecology studies. He completed his degree in plant breeding from Cornell prior to moving with his family to Dickinson, North Dakota.
South Dakota Organizations, Programs and Contacts Heartland Organic Foods, Inc. InterTribal Bison Cooperative Natural Resources Conservation Service Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society Sinte Gleska University South Dakota Department of Agriculture South Dakota Poultry Headquarters South Dakota State University: Cooperative Extension Service Plant Science Department Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference |
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