Agtegra CEO Chris Pearson says that even if Donald Trump snaps his fingers today and ends his failed tariffs, his ag co-op members will suffer…
Tag: agriculture
Also nowhere to be seen at Governor Kristi Noem’s ag-industrial summit in Sioux Falls this week: the Rosebud Economic Development Corporation (REDCO) and its Food…
The theme for Kristi Noem’s first Governor’s Agricultural Summit (in Sioux Falls) may as well be “Get Big or Get Out.” The sponsors and speakers…
I don’t know about knne-high by the Fourth, but at least most of the corn has poked its stalks out of the soil. According to…
The Bee Informed Partnership reports that U.S. beekeepers lost 37.7% of their honey bee colonies last winter. That’s the worst loss since BIP started surveying…
Governor Kristi Noem and some veto-override-shy Republicans said last winter that South Dakota wasn’t ready for hemp. Yet even in the midst of May planting,…
The latest USDA crop progress report confirms what a drive past a lot of brown fields along I-29 will tell you: a lot of farmers are…
South Dakota has prohibited the application of dicamba after June 30. But don’t think that the state is going to take action to protect you…
The 2018 Legislature approved spending $55 million to build the precision agriculture program at SDSU. Teaching undergraduates to use science and technology to grow more…
Dr. David Newquist offers the fascinating thesis that Soviet agriculture failed not because of communism but because of the consolidation of farms under a science-denying…