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…
Tag: agriculture
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:…
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…
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…