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,…
Tag: agriculture
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…
South Dakota farmers still haven’t planted most of what they plan to get into the ground this year. As of Sunday, we had in the…
NPR reports that foreign investors have doubled the amount of American farmland they own in this century: When the stock market tanked during the last…
South Dakota’s Department of Agriculture very sensibly set June 30 as the last day farmers can apply drift-prone dicamba herbicide. Senator Justin Cronin (R-23/Gettysburg) is…
Funny that the SDGOP mouthpiece blog hasn’t yet run this e-mail from Senator Marion Michael Rounds weakly clapping for more welfare checks for farmers from…
Today’s dreary, drizzly weather brings no relief to South Dakota farmers, who are well behind on planting. Yesterday’s USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service crop progress and…