Tory Schalkle, the great-great grandson of one of the men who brought pheasants to Redfield 111 years ago, Henry J. Schalkle, writes from Minnesota to…
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by Nancy Johnson Wirsing This article responds to a three-part series of articles in the Gregory Times Advocate by South Dakota News Watch reporter Bart…
Team Noem is doing a poor job of whipping hemp legislation to passage. She said she wanted to wrap up the hemp issue in the…
I’m just trying to be helpful…. Governor Kristi Noem tried suppressing protest against her foreign Big Oil pals‘ Keystone XL pipeline and got beat in…
Last week the USDA approved six applications for domestic hemp programs, for the states of Louisiana, New Jersey, and Ohio; the Santa Rosa Band of…
Democrats continue to get stuff done in Congress, and this week a few Republicans stopped staging political theater for the morally bankrupt White House and…
Donald Trump throws $28 billion at farmers (mostly at the rich ones) to make up for wrecking their markets and calls them patriots for taking…
Maybe South Dakota’s agricultural lobby isn’t as fired up about hemp as folks eager to override Governor Kristi Noem’s opposition to the crop are assuming.…
My local paper runs this odd little online poll asking “Is the second 2019 Market Facilitation Program payment large enough?” The poll widgeteer, Civic Science,…