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…
Tag: agriculture
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…
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…