South Dakota State University is bucking famous alumna Governor Kristi Noem’s resistance to science and stimulus and taking a $1.29-million Conservation Innovation Grant from the USDA to promote adapting agriculture to climate change:
SDSU received about $1.28 million in funding for a project entitled, “Overcoming Climate Smart Adoption Barriers by Demonstrating the Value of Linking No-Tillage, Cover Crops, and Enhanced N Management into a Single System.”
The project is focused on overcoming barriers in implementing climate-smart ag practices, including no-till farming, planting cover crops, and utilizing smart fertilizer technologies, in South Dakota, according to the CIG recipient release [Dominik Dausch, “SDSU Receives $1.2M USDA Grant for Climate-Smart Agriculture Project,” Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 2023.04.06].
To me, University seems like a better place for this type of money to go anyhow. Maybe everyone can get some knowledge as a result.
Obviously most everyone is rolling their eyes at Noem’s inflation excuse for rejecting the money.
Noem Nothing should be called an alumnut.
I’m happy to see that some smart people remain in South Dakota. These grants should all go to smart people, because the politicians there are not capable of running the state.
Krusti only works with money in the context of culture wars. As far as I can tell.
SDSU does ag projects well. I hear the cowbells reverberating throughout Brookings. Kristi should too.
SDSU needs to recall kristi’s “Work Experience” degree.
“Alumnut” – – good one e platypus
It’s the young people (thank god) and their universities. the GOP can mock, as a hoax, climate change, no longer.
“Trump is a galvanizing force in Democratic politics going all the way back to the massive, global Women’s March in 2017. His grotesque behavior motivated millions of people, especially women, to organize and it paid off in every election since then. Donald Trump has been dragging the GOP down for years but they just can’t quit him. ***
Wisconsin has been a battleground for years with a polarized electorate that has had power swinging back and forth between the two parties with razor-thin margins. It was assumed that the high-stakes election this week for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court would be similarly tight. The future of the outrageous gerrymander that makes Republicans massively over-represented in the state legislature was at issue but, most importantly, abortion rights were front and center. Abortion has been illegal in the state since last June when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and an archaic law banning abortion that had been on the books since 1849 was no longer moot….Abortion rights and democracy were on the ballot with the first being denied as a result of the Republicans manipulating the map to un-democratically seize more power than the people voted for. The anti-abortion candidate (a Trumper, by the way) lost by 10 points, a miracle in that polarized electorate. With good organization by the state Democratic Party — which saw a huge uptick in 18-29-year-old voters, a big gender gap and even, surprisingly, inroads among white, non-college-educated voters — abortion rights and democracy advocacy carried the day.***
Abortion rights and democracy were on the ballot with the first being denied as a result of the Republicans manipulating the map to un-democratically seize more power than the people voted for. The anti-abortion candidate (a Trumper, by the way) lost by 10 points, a miracle in that polarized electorate. With good organization by the state Democratic Party — which saw a huge uptick in 18-29-year-old voters, a big gender gap and even, surprisingly, inroads among white, non-college-educated voters — abortion rights and democracy advocacy carried the day.” https://www.salon.com/2023/04/07/caught-off-guard-by-the-lefts-ferocious-backlash/
add to the above: ‘After six people, including three little children, were shot down in a Nashville school, citizens protested the state’s insanely loose gun laws that allowed the shooter to legally obtain firearms despite a history of mental illness. The anti-democratic Republicans (yes, Tennessee is ridiculously gerrymandered as well) essentially scoffed at their concerns, attacked their colleagues’ First Amendment rights and then showed the entire country in living color that they are unreconstructed racists on top of it by instituting the political death penalty against two Black legislators for a minor rules violation.”
Noem threatens Biden with wasting resources suing over trans ban overturn. SD doesn’t have the best record suing the potus.over a problem that does not exist.in Duhkota.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/noem-warns-biden-admin-over-proposed-title-ix-regulations-for-transgender-athletes-well-see-you-in-court