Trumponomics did not cause a decrease in the number of farms in South Dakota last year. According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s National…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Is South Dakota’s business model pure crap? We threaten, bribe, and finally just dissolve the power of counties to promote factory feedlots to churn out…
Who’s solving problems in Pierre? Democrats. Economist and Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) offers Senate Bill 96, which would lift South Dakota’s ban on Temporary…
Representative Tony Randolph (R-35/Rapid City) wasted more of the Legislature’s time this week with House Concurrent Resolution 6012, a restatement of the obvious fact of…
I hear there’s some story in the papers about some local South Dakota high school sport player, whose name makes clear his immigrant origins, who…
Pat Powers has been trying to manufacture a story out of the fact that his party’s golden boy, Republican Alex Jensen, has been raising lots…
If California entrepreneurs can turn CAFO crap into energy, then the hoghouse of Senate Bill 179 must have some real power potential. (Sorry—the Legislature inspires…
Poop is power, says California’s Brightmark Energy, which plans to come from San Francisco to South Dakota to turn factory feedlot manure into natural gas:…
Just when we think the Legislature has come to its senses, it proves us wrong. After voting last week 30–33 to throw away Senate Bill…
Gregory-area rancher Nancy Johnson Wirsing wrote last month about the apparent journalistic tilt toward pro-CAFO corporate propaganda. This month she writes about the hazards of…