South Dakota State University IALC Founding Member Institution Brookings, South Dakota Faculty at South Dakota State University collectively have more than 100 years of experience working on improvements for agricultural systems in semiarid environments, much of it at field sites that receive only 14 to 28 inches of precipitation per year. Many facilities at South Dakota State University are involved in arid lands research and education, including the College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, the Water Resources Institute, the Office of Remote Sensing, and a new 460-acre research farm. A new regional research facility, the Northern Plains Biostress Laboratory, was dedicated on September 17, 1993. A Northern Great Plains Water Resources Research Center currently is being developed. International development work is a major emphasis at South Dakota State University.
Studies indicate that the germplasm is widely available and being used by farmers in Morocco.