Among the topics legislators heard at a public forum on coronavirus relief in Rapid City Thursday was state support for local meat lockers. Right now,…
Tag: agriculture
Despite outbreaks of coronavirus at meat factories across South Dakota and the nation, neither pandemic nor plant shutdowns appear to be leading to the foodpocalypse…
Kristi Noem’s Freedomania isn’t keeping farmers afloat amidst coronavirus. Even those great rural pillars of self-sufficiency are getting $138 million in federal coronavirus assistance: More…
Dicamba is now illegal, thanks to yet another court ruling determining that the Trump Environmental Protection Agency has failed to do its job: A federal…
South Dakota farmers are getting into the fields at a better clip than usual, and certainly better than last year’s rainy spring. According to the…
Donald Trump is tired of coronavirus damaging rural America. He wants to get back doing that damage himself: “Tariff Man”said Thursday, “we signed a trade deal…
What better time that a pandemic to be out standing in your field… or better yet, out tractoring in your field? The USDA National Agricultural…
The coronavirus collapse has exposed a lot of problems in how we produce food. Another coronavirus-generated problem that will hurt farmers due to the inherent…
Senator Marion Michael Rounds is calling on the federal government (you know, the one run by his pal Donald Trump) to stop sending unclear signals…