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…
Tag: agriculture
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…
Donald Trump continues his Communist march toward nationalizing America’s farms. After promising $12 billion in welfare checks last year to buy farmers’ votes and distract them from…
Farmers can’t tell if Donald Trump is coming or going. On Monday, Trump’s economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Trump’s ready to hand out more buy-off…
The barf-word of the week is agvocacy, the new term being foisted on us by the “share our story” marketing machine of industrial agriculture. The term…
The new USDA 2017 Census of Agriculture offers one sad statistic of overarching importance for South Dakota: for the first time since statehood, the number…
The South Dakota Department of Agriculture has set this year’s cut-off date for applying the controversial and unneighborly herbicide dicamba: when soybeans reach the R1…