South Dakota’s harvest is proceeding slowly. According to the latest stats from the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the USD of A, as of Sunday,…
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Among the documents received by the Legislature’s Agricultural Land Assessment Task Force last week was this handy four-page guide to the Agricultural Land Productivity Formula,…
Donald Trump is putting his usual mindless exclamation points on the “phase one” agreement to delay more U.S. tariffs against Chinese goods in return for…
Naturally, Donald Trump’s stooges tell us that the White House’s Friday announcement about some kind of sop to ethanol is hunky-dory: Today’s announcement is great…
Farming’s hard enough. The hours are lousy, it’s one of the ten most dangerous jobs in America, and when Donald Trump wrecks their markets by…
Earl Butz is back! (Did he ever really leave?) U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told Wisoncsin dairy farmers Tuesday to get big or get out……
Monday’s USDA crop report says South Dakota’s corn crop is stuck in the mud: Corn condition rated 2 percent very poor, 6 poor, 26 fair,…
Farmers who still support Trump suffer from something like battered-spouse syndrome—they just can’t break free of a brute who by every objective standard is bad…
Senator Mike Rounds dispatches his wife Jean to put her name to a fundraising letter for his reelection campaign as well as a little fluffy…