Overview
Learn how weather, soil and agricultural practices affected the success and failure of homesteading as recounted in the 2019 One Book Siouxland — Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser.
The panel discussion features Todd Heitkamp, National Weather Service meteorologist; Peter Kovacs, assistant professor, precision agriculture cropping systems, South Dakota State University; and Thandiwe Nleya, assistant professor of agronomy, horticulture and plant science, South Dakota State University. Presented in connection with the 2019 One Book Siouxland: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser