See how the Big Sioux River and South Dakota farms intersect!

Mark your calendars for May 6-7, 2025, and join us as we travel through southeastern South Dakota to see how conservation and innovation are implemented on the land. It’s a unique planting season tour that will focus on soil health, biodiversity, crop production, and innovation.

During our tour, we will be touring an award-winning farm that features conservation agriculture. We're also featuring stops at USGS EROS and the Falls. 

On the Conservation in Action Tour, you’ll do more than hear from dynamic speakers and talk with conservation-minded producers: You’ll experience farming up close. We’ve seen sugarcane harvesting in Florida, aerial seeding demonstrations in Illinois, wheat processing in Michigan, and livestock grazing in Idaho.

With a record attendance of 270 attendees from 20 states, the Tour has a track record of national attention from many different sectors of agriculture. Farmers, agribusiness representatives, elected officials, policymakers, local conservation professionals, and more experience innovative farming that makes a difference in the community. We’ve seen farms in watersheds as big as the Chesapeake Bay and the Mississippi Delta and as small, but no less important, as the Indian Creek (Illinois) Watershed.

There are no floors, no walls, and no ceilings when you embark on a Conservation in Action Tour with CTIC. You touch the soil, see the crops, observe the livestock and the wildlife up close. You see the land, the water, the sky, and the connections between conservation-minded farming and the quality of your drinking water, air quality, and resilient production systems. We are CTIC, and this is our Conservation in Action Tour, where you are part of the action in conservation agriculture.

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