Competition among numerous local markets yields higher milk prices.

 Access to local milk markets means less freight differential for dairymen.

Greater production input costs.

Sensible laws protect the environment and natural resources, yet allow permitting of dairies.

Preliminary assessments completed on sites available for construction of new dairies.

County ordinances conducive to livestock production.

Reliable electrical supply network to meet current needs and future economic growth consumption demands.

South Dakota State University is the only university in the upper Midwest that offers a dairy manufacturing degree and only one of four in the nation that offers majors in dairy manufacturing and dairy production.

Midwest Dairy Institute, in Milbank, South Dakota, offers training in the operational aspects of dairying for dairy managers, herdsmen and parlor managers.

Abundant, economical supply of local corn, corn silage, and alfalfa hay

Alternative feed inventories-distillers grain, cottonseed, and commercial minerals

Convenient and consistent quality forages via contract with neighboring producers

Bordering feed production constitutes animal fertilizer market

South Dakota is the only state with:
          NO corporate income tax
          NO personal income tax
          NO personal property  tax
          NO inheritance tax
          NO business inventory tax

National rankings:
          1st for economic environments for entrepreneurship
          2nd in student-to-computer ratio (3.2 to 1)
          3rd lowest overall crime rate
          5th for business-friendly legislatures
          7th for lowest cost of living index
          10th for most livable state

South Dakota is the most digital state in K-12 and higher education

South Dakota has more fiber optics than any other state in the nation