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BROOKINGS, South Dakota State University Extension Crops Business Management Specialist Jack Davis is retiring after 30 years of serving South Dakota’s agricultural community. 

There will be a retirement open house for Davis from 3 to 4:30 p.m. CDT on Aug. 19 at the SDSU Extension Mitchell Regional Center. 

A native of rural Forestburg, Davis graduated from Woonsocket High School before attending SDSU for college. He graduated in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in agriculture business. He returned to the family farm and raised corn, alfalfa and cattle until 1988 when he decided to pursue a graduate degree. 

In 1989, he graduated from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion with a master’s in business administration and information systems. Davis then taught accounting and economics at Dakota State University in Madison from 1989 to 1992, before working as a public accountant and a controller for a manufacturing business. 

In 1994, he joined SDSU Extension and was one of a handful of farm management agents who would help people with financial analysis and projections. He’s seen drastic changes in technology and its uses for agriculture over the last 30 years, and Davis has enjoyed helping others embrace those changes. 

…Read on and see a picture of Davis in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

Does the Forestburg area have enough interest in preserving its unique history to work toward creating an Historical Society? Are there volunteers interested in working on and supporting such a project? Are the pioneer homesteader family histories along with the Ruskin Park story, the watermelon industry, and the various county school histories worth preserving in a local museum? Could the wonderful 500-page history of Sanborn County compiled and printed in the 1960s by Mrs. Alice Mitchell Brown and Sherman S. Judy be preserved and expanded in such an effort?

In early June, a group of individuals met to discuss and explore possible interest in creating a Forestburg Historical Society. It was decided that the 2024 Melon Festival on Aug. 17 might provide a time to collect community feedback. There will be at least one if not two trailers at the site of the festival that will house a display of historic documents, pictures and artifacts in the trailer(s).  Contributions of historic articles or items to be exhibited on a one-day basis are welcome. If you would like to become involved in this effort, please contact Ron Brakke at rbrakke@brakkeconsulting.com or call Ron at 214-906-0750, Adam Alt at 605-770-8512 or altcustomfarms@yahoo.com, or Curt Talley at cltalley2011@gmail.com or at 605-996-7117.

Diversity is the best way to describe the wide range of topics covered at the 4-H Public Presentation Contest on July 16. Spectators present heard about cedar encroachment, tools, fire extinguishers and safety, dance, sunflower seeds, swine, growing flowers and many more things!  The Sanborn County 4-Hers impressed the audience and judges with their mixture of illustrated talks and demonstrations.  Judging the event this year were Carrie Howard and Candi Danek.  Ribbons were awarded to these deserving 4-Hers:

Purple – Hope Baysinger, Wool You Use My Fleece; Chris Burkel, How to Wash Katahdin Hair Sheep; Beau Enfield, Cedar Encroachment:  Effects on Habitat; Vada Enfield, Cedar Encroachment:  Effects on Grassland Production; Samuel Hansen, Old Tools vs. Modern Tools; Victoria Hoffman, How to Eat Healthy; Landon Hoffman, Fire Safety; Emerson Johnson, Just Dance; Kahle Johnson, Money Talks; Timothy Kelly, Easy Peel Hard Cooked Eggs; Brooklyn Larson and McKenzie Uecker, Home-Made Sunflower Seeds; Memphis and Teagen Moody, Fire Extinguishers; Scarlett Radke, Scarlett and Lucky; Summer Senska, Growing Flowers; Brody Uecker, Bike Safety; Cain Zoss, Swine Breeds; Delaney Zoss, Pig Care 101;

Blue – Lane Burkel, My Welding Experience; Ty Burkel, Poultry Showmanship; Anna Hunter, Why You Should Consider Quail; Henry Hunter, The Magic of Stop Motion Animation; Sophie Kelly, Heavy Duty Shopping or Gift Bag;

White – Paul Hansen, Collecting Matchbox Cars for Fun.

…See pictures in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

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