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…
Tag: agriculture
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…
John Tsitrian points out that Donald Trump’s irrational threat to close the Mexican border would compound troubles for South Dakota farmers already reeling under the…
WNAX reports that Minnesota farmers had the lowest median income since the 1980s. Unlike Kristi Noem, who leaves South Dakota farmers with thoughts and prayers…
Evidently suffering from too much time and budget on her hands, Governor Kristi Noem felt the need to produce a 1:22 Twitter ad to justify…
Seth Tupper notes that South Dakota is one of only nine states that have not legalized industrial hemp. Wyoming, one of the states where hemp…
Four of the five legislators at Aberdeen’s final 2019 crackerbarrel yesterday expressed unequivocal support for the bills legalizing industrial hemp in South Dakota—House Bill 1191 on…