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Planning, experience is source of calm for Murdo rancher, as South Dakota drought persists
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MURDO, S.D. — Brett Nix is worried, yet much from stressed, also as the dry spell throughout a lot of South Dakota reveals little proof of vanishing at any time quickly. The Murdo breeder as well as his other half Lori are extremely except wetness — their cattle ranch in main South Dakota drops within the huge swath of the state identified as extreme dry spell.
Yet, Nix is incredibly tranquil, specifically taking into consideration the probability of even more completely dry weather condition in advance. That calmness originates from what he discovered as he managed dry spell 10 years back, in 2012, as well as the adjustments he’s made given that. “We remained in even more of a panic setting after that,” Nix claimed. “That’s when we buckled down concerning establishing a grazing strategy in addition to a dry spell strategy. We don’t check out them as different strategies––they’re applied with each other.”
Prior to they created their grazing strategy, Nix had various herds of livestock running a month to a month as well as a fifty percent on various fields. “We attempted to handle that to provide the yards time to remainder as well as recoup, yet having livestock grazing overall cattle ranch a lot of the moment didn’t function the very best,” Nix claimed.
“Among one of the most effective points you can do on your cattle ranch is to comingle your herds,” Nix claimed. “It transformed whatever for us when we organized them completely. The impactful aspect of having all your livestock consuming in one area is that the yard on all the remainder of the cattle ranch is relaxing as well as recouping.”
Nix, the existing chair of the producer-led South Dakota Meadow Union, claimed he utilizes grazing concepts to direct turnings of livestock with fields. “We don’t wish to take a 2nd bite from a plant after it has actually begun to recoup. That indicates our herd isn’t mosting likely to get on any kind of tract for greater than 3 to 5 days. We such as to alter period of usage, also.”
Those grazing patterns lead to dirts as well as yards that are a lot more resistant in completely dry weather condition, as well as prepared to recover after a rainfall, Nix claimed, leading to significantly even more manufacturing. “I believe a great deal of herdsmans concentrate on their livestock genes as well as sort of placed their dirt as well as yard apart. That’s a genuine error that will certainly obtain you right into problem genuine fast,” Nix claimed. “We can have yard without livestock, yet we can’t have livestock without yard.”
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Matching animals numbers to manufacturing capacity is essential to browsing with dry spell years, claimed Pete Bauman, a variety area professional with South Dakota State College Expansion in Watertown. “We reside in a semi-arid state, where dry spell is typical, yet it’s on the harsher side currently with 2 years of dry spell back-to- back. It’s the compounding impact that’s mosting likely to make it actually difficult this summer season––even worse than in 2015––if we don’t obtain rainfall.”
Bauman claimed herdsmans that have high-base equipping prices deal with one of the most problem. “The herdsmans that comprehend you can’t run your procedure with lugging abilities based upon just the excellent years are established much better to weather the dry spell,” Bauman claimed.
Nix began de-stocking virtually 2 years back. “We can see we were brief on wetness entering into the summer season of 2020. We left our bulls in for just 35 days with cows as well as 25 days with stockers. That produced sales from open cows as well as tightened up the calving period. So we offered around 20 percent of our cows in 2020. In 2014 open cows were initially to go, after that we offered guide stockers beforehand. We placed bulls in for thirty days on our cows as well as 20 days on heifers––that produced one more 100 head of open cows to offer.”
After marketing the staying guides in late March of this year, Nix is to the core of his cow herd, which stands for concerning half of his typical equipping price. “We have a great deal of regrowth left in our fields from last autumn, as well as the old yard captured all the bit of snow we overcame the winter season. So, we’re confident we can survive this year if we obtain any kind of sort of wetness. If we obtain no wetness from below on, we’ll begin removing several of our older cows.”
Bauman claimed he’s not amazed that Nix has actually offered livestock. “He’s an ahead thinker,” Bauman claimed. Bauman’s finest suggestions to herdsmans that recognize they’ll be brief on field is to look for relied on suggestions from close-by herdsmans like Nix that remain in a far better setting than they are to take care of the dry spell. “They’ve obtained much less anxiety. Ask what you require to do to enter a far better setting; discover what they’ve done to be prepared,” Bauman recommended. “And also make use of the grazing colleges as well as various other programs of the South Dakota Meadow Union as well as South Dakota Dirt Wellness Union to discover just how you can make your cattle ranch a lot more resistant.”
Nix claimed simply having a strategy in composing minimizes anxiety. “When you have a dry spell grazing strategy as well as you have it listed with trigger days, all you need to do is check out it as well as it obtains your mind rolling—asking on your own what you require to do,” Nix claimed. “Our slogan would certainly be ‘the earlier you begin to de-stock, the a lot more yard you’ll have left for the cows you wish to maintain a lot of.”
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Videos: Gundy, Players Recap Win against South Dakota State
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STILLWATER — The Oklahoma State football team beat South Dakota State 44-20 on Saturday to start the season 1-0. After the game, Mike Gundy, Ollie Gordon, Alan Bowman, De’Zhaun Stribling, Collin Oliver, Korie Black and Trey Rucker met with reporters to recap the game.
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South Dakota State vs. No. 17 Oklahoma State live stream (8/31/24): Watch college football, Week 1 online
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The South Dakota State Jackrabbits face the No. 17 Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 (8/31/24) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Fans can watch the game with a subscription to ESPN+.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: NCAA Football, Week 1
Who: South Dakota State vs. Oklahoma State
When: Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 (8/31/24)
Where: Boone Pickens Stadium
Time: 2 p.m. ET
TV: N/A
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Live stream: ESPN+
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Here’s a college football story from the Associated Press:
Y’all ain’t played nobody!
It might as well be college football’s slogan. Debates about strength of schedule are part of the fabric of the sport, like marching bands, cheerleaders and tailgating.
With the size of the College Football Playoff tripling in size from four teams to 12 this season — including seven at-large bids — expect the arguments over the relative difficulty of teams’ schedules to increase exponentially.
The posturing and politicking has already begun.
“This is the NFL of college football in my mind,” Nebraska coach Matt Rhule said during Big Ten media days. At Southeastern Conference media days, the NFL was also invoked when the topic steered to schedules.
“As coaches we want to play the best. People forget that when you’ve spent time in the NFL, every week was like that,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “So when Texas and Oklahoma came into the conference, every schedule was going to get harder.”
The debates aren’t just about which conferences are the best. With super-sized conferences of 16-18 teams, the differences in strength of schedule within leagues can be significant.
The CFP selection committee uses a strength-of-schedule rating provided by SportSource Analytics that includes components such as wins and losses, scoring differential and game location.
Balancing who you played with how you played will be harder than ever.
“There’s a weight on the committee that’s new. I want to see how the committee processes that,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said during spring meetings. “And my encouragement is that this, ‘Well, we have an undefeated team so they’re in’ is not the standard. It never was the standard. Obviously, that stirred up controversy last year.”
Toughest schedules in the Power Four
There are dozens of data-based rating systems to measure the relative strength of college football teams, and all have some type of schedule-rating component.
The AP took three systems — ESPN’s SP+, FEI and KFord Ratings — and averaged their strength of schedule rankings for all 134 Bowl Subdivision teams to determine where each Power Four team’s schedule ranks nationally (all games, not just conference games, are factored in).
Using those projections, SEC teams on average will be facing the toughest schedules this season.
The average strength-of-schedule ranking among the 16 SEC teams is 11.2, from Florida (a unanimous No. 1 among all three systems) to Missouri at 36.7.
Half the teams in the SEC have schedules with an average national ranking of 10 or better, including No. 1 Georgia at 3.7. No. 11 Missouri is the only SEC team with an average schedule-strength ranking below 25.3.
Rating the rest
The Big Ten, now including Southern California, UCLA, Oregon and Washington, is next with an average strength-of-schedule ranking of 26.9 among its 18 teams.
Purdue’s 7.7 average ranking is the highest followed by No. 23 USC at 9. Big Ten favorite No. 2 Ohio State’s average is 34. No. 3 Oregon’s is 26.7.
The ACC and Big 12 are about the same. The 17-team ACC has an average strength of schedule ranking of 49.9. The 16-team Big 12′s average ranking is 47.3.
Assessing strength of schedule
Straight up rankings can be deceiving. How to quantify the difference between facing the sixth-ranked schedule and 26th?
Brian Fremeau, the creator of FEI, does it three ways, asking three questions: How many games would an elite team lose facing a particular schedule? How many would a good team lose? How many would an average team lose?
AP used FEI’s strength of schedule ratings based on good teams in its composite rankings, since good teams are going to be the ones in the CFP race.
Based on FEI projections, the difference between playing Georgia’s schedule (rated 3.4 among the hardest in the nation) and Ohio State (34) is about one more loss for a good team against the Bulldogs’ slate. The difference between Alabama’s schedule and Big 12 favorite Utah’s is about two losses for a good team against the Tide’s.
If these schedule strength projections held — they will change throughout the season — it would then be reasonable to compare an 11-1 Utah to a 9-3 Alabama.
Reasonable to compare doesn’t necessarily mean the one with the tougher schedule should automatically be ranked higher.
“I don’t judge a team on its schedule. I judge a team on how it performs against a schedule, or my system does. And that is a little more of a nuanced take then, ‘Well, we played a tougher set of opponents than you did, therefore, we’re better,’” Fremeau said. “There’s a bit of a balancing act between the two.”
Intraconference debates
The SEC and Big Ten are both bigger and division-less for the first time. That necessitated new tiebreaker procedures to determine which teams qualify for conference title games featuring the top two teams in the standings.
Within the guidelines is an acknowledgment that the rigor of conference schedules will vary when teams are playing barely half the league. After head-to-head and record vs. common opponents are used to break ties, both leagues go to results that favor the team that fared better against the better conference opponents they play.
The ACC, a year ahead of the the SEC and Big Ten in abandoning divisions, has a similar nod within its tiebreakers to strength of schedule.
ACC Associate Commissioner Michael Strickland said the conference used 10 years of data that measures the success of its football teams to help create a new schedule rotation that would be competitively balanced. But the ACC also to had weigh travel now that Stanford, California and SMU are members, as well as protecting some traditional annual rivalries.
The ACC’s fourth two-team tiebreaker is combined winning percentage of conference opponents.
“Our head football coaches suggested that we insert that during our review process,” Strickland said.
The CFP choices
The CFP field announced Dec. 8 will be comprised of the five highest-ranked conference champions, regardless of league, and seven at-large selections. There is no limit to the number of at-large bids a conference can receive.
The most interesting comparisons for the CFP selection committee might end up being between the many conference rivals that do not play each other in the regular season.
What to do with a 10-2 Missouri and a 9-3 Alabama (composite strength-of-schedule ranking, 9.3)? Or Iowa (37) at 10-2 and Michigan (16) at 9-3? Over in the ACC, what would happen while assessing a 10-2 Virginia Tech (68) and a 9-3 Florida State (30.3)?
“Especially when we’re picking (seven) teams now, we’re looking at the loss column with a bit more scrutiny,” Fremeau said. “They’re going to be debating teams like that with a one or possibly two-game difference in record, but a comparable difference in expected schedule rating and they’re going to have that debate about which one they value more.”
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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