Industries Growing in Brookings, SD

With a competitive and sustainable business environment anchored by steady population increases and continued economic growth, you can work, play, and bring your dreams to Brookings.

In addition to offering a low cost of living and strategic location, we’re also home to South Dakota State University, ranked as one of the Midwest’s top research universities in engineering, biological science, and agriculture sciences, and South Dakota’s Land Grant University. An ever-growing, skilled workforce of innovative and creative thinkers not only enrich our business community but ensure a strong economic ecosystem.

In addition to a solid foundation of locally owned businesses, we’re also home to global companies including Solventum, Bel Brands, and Daktronics, which was launched out of SDSU and has made Brookings their permanent home. Bel Brands, the world leader in branded cheeses, recently invested over $140 million in their 170,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art, flagship plant for automation, equipment, processing and efficiency in the production of their Mini Baybel cheese, made exclusively in Brookings.

We’re also a strong agricultural community, surrounded by rich farm and ranch land that fuels the precision agriculture and animal health industries with companies such as Medgene Labs, Agri Tech, Ag Genesis, Inc., Millborn, and Nutrien Ag Solutions.

Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, start up, or established business, Brookings can deliver the expertise and connections that turn opportunities into success.