Progress 09/15/01 to 09/14/05
Outputs
PROJECT REPORT Program Keywords - Increasing Extension Program Capacity Grant Title - Agriculture & Natural Resources Outreach Education Program USDA Cooperative State Research Educational and Extension Service Tribal College 2501 Program - Disadvantaged Farms Program 1.1 - Organic gardening training & tree planting workshops - CSREES - KA 102,131,136,205,206,211,213,215, & 712 five summers training Tribal & community members in organic gardening (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, & 2005) two years at Little Wound School Alternative school site, one year at a local ranchers home site, and three years at main college administration site (Piya Wiconi). Audience - Ag producers & college students - # 153. Annual Farm and Ranch Day held five years covering topics from Hoof and Mouth disease to Impact of prairie dogs on rangelands. Spring of 2006 training not conducted and ranch and farm producers requested when was the next training going to be? Evaluation of the 2005 Fall Ag expo
conducted with SDSU on a 5 point licker scale the overall workshop training were rated at a 3.5 with 5 = excellent and 1 = poor. - CSREES - KA 311, 301, 302, 307, 308, 401, 136, & 135 Livestock training on High Tensile Electric Fence construction training for Bison and general management of bison conducted for producers, OLC researchers, students, & SDSU researchers, OST Park Rangers, & High School and College Students. Youth enrichment activities related to agriculture & natural resources were conducted all six years with activities relating to livestock showmanship, range plant identification, rodeo, gardening, healthy living, financial management for bank loans, geographic positioning treasure hunting. Audience - youth from Head Start to high school, parents, 4-H leaders, teachers, & extension educators - #626. CSREES - KA-806, 131, 607, 805, 712, 136, 211, 604, & 311 Worked with 1862 universities as follows South Dakota State, Iowa State, & Colorado State in areas of youth
development, natural resource management, and financial management - CSREES - KA 206 Opportunities to work with 1890 Land Grant programs came through another program called Disadvantage Farmers and Ranchers where our outreach coordinator promoted agriculture issues related to beef, bison, horses, and organic gardening to 190 individuals. In the fall of 2004, garden survey was conducted on 37 plots assisted by the Ag field aide in soil prep. Of those 37 over 63% of gardens were planted with less than 50% producing produce at time of survey. Most common reasons for none production was drought, grasshoppers, & weeds. Fourteen present of the gardens visited had excellent weed control, 32% had good weed control with the remainder had poor weed control. Less than 40% of the gardens visited were fenced to keep out livestock. Appendices # 1 - Photos of Extension Outreach Activities http://www.olc.edu/~lhenry/report/Fall_Ag_workshop_092305_02.xls
PRODUCTS: Fact Sheets developed for the day of the horse December 2005 utilizing Lakota to ID body parts of a the horses. Also developed was a factsheet utilizing range research information on plant species in Oglala canyon soil from bison research projects on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
OUTCOMES: Over 55 beef/bison producers attended production trainings with approximately 50% of them attending both trainings. Water quality testing used to test local stock wells and producers utilized the information on their wells to monitor their livestock health. Two producers installed solar wells and three checked into the cost of instillations in their area of solar wells. Seventy-five percent of the gardens tilled were planted and harvested adding nutritious vegetables to family diets and added exercise opportunities to family members. Eighty (k-12 educators) received information on local flora and fauna to include in science curriculum. They requested information on how this information would meet South Dakota State science standards. The Department will work on this issue through out the next year to adjust outreach education activities to relate to state educational standards. The above example met South Dakota's state agriculture competency standard H for managing pasture
and rangeland. (See their web site for more details. http://www.state.sd.us/deca/DWCP/agedu/AgCompetencyprofiles2000.pdf) The department will begin next year to design training and assessment to meet the State of South Dakota's agriculture education competency standards.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES: 1.1 - Organic gardening training & tree planting workshops - CSREES - KA 102,131,136,205,206,211,213,215, & 712 Six summers training Tribal & community members in organic gardening (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) two years at Little Wound School Alternative school site, one year at a local ranchers home site, and three years at main college administration site (Piya Wiconi). Audience - Ag producers & college students - # 153. Annual Farm and Ranch Day held five years covering topics from Hoof and Mouth disease to Impact of prairie dogs on rangelands. Spring of 2006 training not conducted and ranch and farm producers requested when was the next training going to be? Evaluation of the 2005 Fall Ag expo conducted with SDSU on a 5 point licker scale the overall workshop training were rated at a 3.5 with 5 = excellent and 1 = poor. - CSREES - KA 311, 301, 302, 307, 308, 401, 136, & 135 Livestock training on High Tensile Electric Fence construction training
for Bison and general management of bison conducted for producers, OLC researchers, students, & SDSU researchers, OST Park Rangers, & High School and College Students. Youth enrichment activities related to agriculture & natural resources were conducted all six years with activities relating to livestock showmanship, range plant identification, rodeo, gardening, healthy living, financial management for bank loans, geographic positioning treasure hunting. Audience - youth from Head Start to high school, parents, 4-H leaders, teachers, & extension educators - #626. CSREES - KA-806, 131, 607, 805, 712, 136, 211, 604, & 311 Worked with 1862 universities as follows South Dakota State, Iowa State, & Colorado State in areas of youth development, natural resource management, and financial management - CSREES - KA 206 Opportunities to work with 1890 Land Grant programs came through another program called Disadvantage Farmers and Ranchers where our outreach coordinator promoted agriculture
issues related to beef, bison, horses, and organic gardening to 190 individuals. In the fall of 2004, garden survey was conducted on 37 plots assisted by the Ag field aide in soil prep. Of those 37 over 63% of gardens were planted with less than 50% producing produce at time of survey. Most common reasons for none production was drought, grasshoppers, & weeds. Fourteen present of the gardens visited had excellent weed control, 32% had good weed control with the remainder had poor weed control. Less than 40% of the gardens visited were fenced to keep out livestock. Appendices # 1 - Photos of Extension Outreach Activities http://www.olc.edu/~lhenry/report/Fall_Ag_workshop_092305_02.xls
FUTURE INITIATIVES: Project has been completed. Many activities will continue into the next outreach education project as OLC-SDSU Annual Farm & Ranch Day which began in spring of 1992.
Impacts
- Ranch producer close to Sharps Corner on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation stated that through OLC's Agriculture & Natural Resource Department outreach educational activities and class work has helpped him to understand the importance of range management for his families cow-calf operation. - Local gardner from Kyle, SD area stated that she has learned the importance of planning in managing the soil nutrient in local soils for vegetable crops. - Farm Service Agency office stated that there has been an increase in Native American applications for FSA loans. Applicants trained in fiscal management through OLC's are more informed than in the past on how to file an application and fill in cash flow statements. - Of those 37 over 63% of gardens were planted with less than 50% producing produce at time of survey. Most common reasons for none production was drought, grasshoppers, & weeds. Fourteen present of the gardens visited had excellent weed control, 32% had good weed
control with the remainder had poor weed control. Less than 40% of the gardens visited were fenced to keep out livestock. - Evaluation of the 2005 Fall Ag expo conducted with SDSU on a 5 point licker scale the overall workshop training were rated at a 3.5 with 5 = excellent and 1 = poor.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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