Minnesota-based ag co-op CHS is in trouble for fudged figures. Evidently an employee deliberately overstated the value of CHS’s rail freight contracts by maybe $190…
Tag: agriculture
Hey, farmers! Don’t forget to tell the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service how badly Donald Trump screwed you this year! The NASS says it will…
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…
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…