South Dakota farmers and Republicans (and thanks to consolidation and corporatization, there’s a lot of overlap in that Venn diagram) are all socialists at heart.…
Posts tagged as “agriculture”
Boy, talk about drift: Monsanto’s problematic herbicide dicamba apparently drifts further than neighboring fields. It’s ending up in our pee: Since 2017 — when the herbicide…
Senator M. Michael Rounds wants the ag-industrial complex to determine whether or not the land they want to tile, plow, and monetize qualifies as wetlands,…
University of Iowa hydroscientist and engineer Chris Jones says Iowa farmers enjoy a lot of mythmaking that smells more like corporate image-management than reflection of…
I learned something new today: sunflowers can cause your tractor to catch fire! What started as a day of planting into sunflower stubble quickly turned…
As Republicans sue to stop the Biden Administration from handing out student loan relief, rural Republicans are staying curiously quiet about the Biden Administration’s handing…
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis reports that the price of farmland in South Dakota is up 11.5% from last year—and that’s adjusted for inflation.…
I noted earlier this month that South Dakota is not capitalizing on organic agriculture as eagerly as other states. Perhaps President Biden can help: Details…
South Dakota News Watch‘s new report on fraud in organic farming includes some figures on how South Dakota seems not to be capitalizing on the…