As Governor Kristi Noem gets ready to ask the Legislature to approve her effort to bury the state’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources in…
Tag: agriculture
An eager reader notes that one of those new California companies slurping up all the venture capital that Senator John Thune was whining about this…
The Legislature’s Rules Review Committee yesterday voted 5–1 to approve South Dakota’s new rules for industrial hemp, including lots of fees for growers and processors:…
Rapid City commentator and trade expert John Tsitrian says the corn and soybean markets are rallying thanks to shifting demand and supply in China and…
Democratic legislator Jim Peterson tried for years to pass a plan to improve water quality with agricultural property tax incentives for grassy buffer strips along…
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,…
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…