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South Dakota’s pheasant fields have been buzzing with excitement after the 2024 season delivered a massive harvest, and ...

South Dakota is coming off one of its most successful pheasant seasons in recent memory, and state officials expect another ...

Pierre, S.D. – The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) today announced the 2024 pheasant season harvest numbers. Over 1.3 ...

Pheasant hunting is an economic engine for South Dakota. Pheasants Forever, a private conservation organization, put the ...

Devastating. For Jason Ramsdell, general manager of Dakota Layers, that was 2022 in a word. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) was found at his Flandreau-based egg farm last year, forcing ...

South Dakota doesn’t do an official bird count survey but it does release an outlook. The state Game Fish and Parks Department (GFP) described the season outlook as “Conditions are excellent ...

South Dakota has been a hotbed for bird flu infections for two reasons. The state is along the flyway for many species of migratory birds, which are the known carriers of the virus. Also ...

GFP Secretary Kevin Robling says hunters averaged approximately nine birds per person. To put the success of the 2024 pheasant hunting season into perspective, he says more roosters were harvested in ...

Bird flu has caused the death of millions of birds in South Dakota, the state with the second-highest number of outbreaks in the US. While no human cases have been reported in South Dakota ...