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SDSU’s Ag Center Under Way in South Dakota
Retraining Vs. Recruiting in Times of COVID-19...10
McCownGordon photo MacAllister Machinery Reflects on 75 Years of Operation...24
Crews perform site work for the new Raven Precision Agriculture Center on the SDSU Campus.
By Cindy Riley CEG CORRESPONDENT
Vögele Impresses Midwest Crew on Paving Project...31
Table of Contents ............4 Paving Section ..........31-45 Air Compressors, Generators & Light Towers Section ........63-67 Auction Section ........83-89
Business Calendar......85 Advertisers Index ..........90
Designed to combine agronomy, engineering and computer science disciplines under one roof, South Dakota State University’s $46.1 million Raven Precision Agriculture Center will be dedicated to precision agriculture educa-
tion, research and extension when it opens next year. Located on the school’s main campus in Brookings, the facility is funded by a combination of state money and support from donors and friends through private and corporate philanthropic development. “South Dakota State University recognized the need for a precision
agriculture degree program and created the first four-year degree in precision agriculture in the United States in 2016,” said John Killefer, the school’s dean of agriculture, food and environmental sciences. “In order to facilitate and complement this new program, the Raven Precision Agriculture Center will help to support this integrative
teaching and research program. “With the rapid growth in student interest in the major, and the very rapid implementation and development of precision agriculture technologies in the field, the Raven Precision Agriculture Center will allow us to be at the forefront of this discipline that will see SDSU page 80
‘Crossroads of the Country’ Undergoing $23M Update By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
There’s been talk around Kansas City of the need to modernize the outdated Turner Diagonal on I-70 in Kansas City for at least eight years. Then, about three years ago, stakeholders learned of the availability of a federal grant, applied and were awarded it.
“The thing that makes it a really exciting project is the pure number of organizations that made it happen,” said Dave Reno, interim public information officer of the Unified Government of the Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan. “We’ve got Kansas Department of Transportation photo federal, state, local and private entities all The Turner Diagonal sits at what is known as working together.” “the crossroads of the country” — about a twosee INTERCHANGE page 70
day drive from 85 percent of the U.S. population.