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For $799,000, this could all be yours. - Photo courtesy bfearn via Google Maps

For $799,000, you can buy town of Scenic

SCENIC, S.D. (AP) — Scenic, once known as a Wild West town next to the Badlands, now finds itself in an unlikely place: listed for sale by the woman who has owned much of the town for years. And Twila Merril is hoping to get as much as $799,000 for the town located 50 miles [...]

Farms of the future: bio-oil, biochar from biomass

Farms of the future: bio-oil, biochar from biomass

Rural landscapes of the future might have pyrolysis plants instead of grain elevators on every horizon —processing centers where farmers would bring bulky crops such as switchgrass to be made into crude oil. Those pyrolysis plants would pass that crude “bio-oil” on to refineries elsewhere to be made into drop-in fuels and industrial chemicals; they [...]

SDSU and pharmaceutical company team up against E. coli

SDSU and pharmaceutical company team up against E. coli

SDSU is partnering with animal health leader Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. to develop a new technology to protect pigs against a deadly form of E. coli. SDSU filed a patent application before publishing its research findings on the technology, developed by assistant professor Weiping Zhang and professor David Francis in SDSU’s Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Department. [...]

The Consul General of India to Chicago, Mutka D. Tomar, will visit SDSU Aug. 3

Consul General of India to Chicago to visit SDSU

The Consul General of India to Chicago, Mukta D. Tomar, will visit SDSU on Aug. 3, to talk about relations between South Dakota and India. An open public discussion will take place at 11 a.m. in the Campanile Room of The Union on campus. Tomar is a career diplomat and a graduate of Kolkata University [...]