The Agricultural Land Assessment Task Force meets next Tuesday to discuss the absurd, Rube-Goldberg system of taxing South Dakota’s farm and ranch land based on…
Tag: agriculture
My morning paper earns its subscription fee this morning by dedicating a full page to data: The Aberdeen American News heralds tomorrow’s big pheasant opener with historical…
This month’s award for authentic campaign signage goes to Nancy Kirstein of Lennox, a Democrat running for District 6 House: The award for thoughtful spousal…
You’d think rural America would see the harm done by Trump’s tariffs, his slow and only election-motivated backing of ethanol, and his lazy ignorance of…
Dakota Rural Action is surveying Legislative candidates on their plans for water quality, Keystone XL, clean energy, initiative and referendum, and chemical drfit impacts on…
The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service reports that 2.71 million chickens laid 68.0 million eggs in South Dakota in August. That’s 78 eggs for every…
SDSU Extension has released its latest report on agricultural land values in South Dakota. Amid wide regional variations in changes in value of cropland and…
As bad as Donald Trump has made things for South Dakota agriculture, our farmers and ranchers are actually suffering less than their colleagues everywhere else…
The good news from USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service Northern Plains Region office in Sioux Falls is that South Dakota farmers may harvest more soybeans…
Charging $500 per ticket and $5,000 a photo almost guarantees that Donald Trump and Kristi Noem won’t be listening to any real, working South Dakota…