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…
Tag: agriculture
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…
As he finally takes action to protect his Sioux Falls workforce and the entire city from the coronavirus that has broken out in his evidently…
Maybe farmers should look at pivoting to local production of edible crops. The bottom is dropping out of the already glum ethanol-corn market: The per-gallon…
The sign on the dairy cooler at Targets limits customers to two jugs of milk each, due to increased demand, yet dairy farmers are dumping…
South Dakota’s beleaguered beekeepers managed to bounce back last year. According to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, South Dakota produced 19.4 million pounds of…
Glaringly absent from Congressman Dusty Johnson’s taxpayer-funded pro-Trump propaganda is any mention of the decline of agriculture under Il Duce’s reign. Even Dusty can’t spin…
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…
Donald Trump isn’t whacking all farmers with his reckless trade war. One subset of the ag industry hasn’t suffered much under the taxes Trump has…
The pro-corporate Farm Bureau reports that the Trump era has brought the highest yearly increase in Chapter 12 family farm bankruptcies since the Great Recession:…