The boards of Ipswich-based North Central Farmers Elevator and Aberdeen-based South Dakota Wheat Growers are again asking their members to vote on merging the two cooperatives.…
Tag: agriculture
In response to reports of crop damage around the U.S., the Trump Environmental Protection Agency is considering further limits on Monsanto’s and BASF’s new dicamba…
As I mentioned, I didn’t take a lot of pictures at the South Dakota State Fair because I spent a lot more time listening to…
The Legislature’s Executive Board will hear a report on the South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service tomorrow afternoon. Issue Memorandum 2017-02, prepared by Jeff Mehlhaff of…
In this week’s corporate fascism file, Energy Transfer Partners is suing Greenpeace and other environmental groups who protested ETP’s Dakota Access pipeline. ETP portrays the…
At a public forum in Aberdeen last month, Lars Herseth and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin both complained that the Democratic Party is too urban and doesn’t…
Senator Billie Sutton is making the financial collapse of Hetland-based H&I Grain an issue in his campaign for governor: Recently, South Dakota’s Public Utilities Commission…
The U.S. economy grew 1.4% in the first quarter of this year. New Bureau of Economic Analysis data show that 43 states and the District…
KELO-TV copies and pastes bits of a wire report saying the Chinese will buy “nearly all” of Iowa’s soybeans. Well, sort of. Chinese buyers signed…
The Governor’s Agricultural Summit takes place here in Aberdeen Thursday. Actually, we’ll have to call it the Lieutenant Governor’s Ag Summit this year, since “prior…