The intent of agricultural district is to protect agricultural lands and lands consisting of natural growth from incompatible land uses in order to preserve land best suited to agricultural uses and land in which the natural environment should be continued and to limit residential, commercial and industrial development to those areas where they are best suited for reasons of practicality. (Ord. 292 § 601, 1980)

The following principal uses and structures shall be permitted in the agricultural district:

A. Any form of agriculture, including the raising of crops, horticulture, animal husbandry and kennels;

B. Dwellings and their normal accessory buildings including mobilehomes (mobilehomes not to exceed five units);

C. Railroad track right-of-way; and

D. Living quarters of persons employed on premises. (Ord. 292 § 602, 1980)

The following accessory uses and structures shall be permitted in the agricultural district:

A. Roadside produce stands in conjunction with a bona fide farm operation on the premises;

B. Artificial lake(s); and

C. Home occupations. (Ord. 292 § 603, 1980)

After notice and appropriate safeguards, the board of adjustment may permit the following exceptions in the (AG) agricultural district, providing no new facility is closer than one mile from any occupied dwelling unless written permission is granted by owner or owners of such dwelling. (Existing activities listed below that expand within their present location are exempt from this section.)

A. Fairgrounds, racetracks and amusement parks;

B. Utility substations;

C. Airports;

D. Cemeteries;

E. Golf courses, country clubs and golf-driving ranges;

F. Amphitheaters, stadiums, drive-in movies, arenas and field houses;

G. Go-cart tracks, riding stables, play fields, athletic fields, bowling, swimming pools, automobile parking;

H. Public roads, public recreational areas, churches and schools;

I. Commercial feedlots;

J. Operation and maintenance terminal for truck and other equipment;

K. Junkyards and salvage yards provided they are set back one thousand (1,000) feet from state and federal road rights-of-way; if not, they must be screened and not visible to main traveled way; and

L. Sanitary landfill sites in accordance with South Dakota Department of Environmental Protection Agency regulations. (Ord. 292 § 604, 1980)

There shall be no more than one access approach on a public road or highway per one-quarter mile on each side of the road. (Ord. 292 § 605, 1980)

There shall be a front yard of not less than eighty (80) feet deep from state and federal rights-of-way or sixty (60) feet deep from other public road rights-of-way. There shall be a frontage of not less than two hundred (200) feet across the lot. (Ord. 292 § 606, 1980)

Shelter-belts consisting of one or more rows when parallel to the right-of-way shall be set back a minimum of one hundred fifty (150) feet from the right-of-way line. Field belts consisting of one or more rows perpendicular of the right-of-way shall be set back a minimum of seventy-five (75) feet from the right-of-way line. Shelter-belts for existing farmstead purposes are exempt from minimum setback requirements. (Ord. 292 § 607, 1980)