The mission of South Dakota Sportsmen Against Hunger is to encourage and facilitate donation of wild game meat to needy people in South Dakota.
Take your field-dressed deer, antelope, pheasants or other wild game to a participating commercial processor, and indicate you want to donate it. If your game animal or bird qualifies for a SDSAH processing certificate, the participating processors will furnish you a certificate to complete. Processors have the certificates on-site; you don't need to bring them with you.
Simply fill out the certificate for each qualifying whole-carcass animal you donate, hand it back to the processor at the time of donation. There is no limit on the number of processing certificates you may use but only one certificate per animal.
In 2010, the processing certificates are worth $50 for each donated antlerless deer, and $40 for each donated doe or fawn antelope. Some processors accept the certificate value as full payment for processing donated animals. For those processors who charge more than the certificate value for processing donated animals, you would be responsible for paying any remaining fee at the time of donation.
You may still donate game animals and birds to SDSAH that do not qualify for processing certificates. In these cases, you would be responsible for payment of all processing charges.
That is all you need to do! The rest of the program relies on the processors and food pantries in the state.
The donated game animals and birds are then processed and frozen by the processor. Arrangements are made for delivering the processed meat from the processor to a public food pantry. The food pantries then distribute the donated meat to needy families who qualify for food assistance in their communities.