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…
Tag: agriculture
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…
Donald Trump doesn’t want to give poor people health insurance or food. The White House 2018 budget would cut $193 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition…
Republican Senator John Thune is calling for more government regulation to keep us safe in our future self-driving cars. I would think a good Republican…
So I’m hanging out at day #1 of public testimony to the Legislature’s interim committee on non-meandered waters here in Aberdeen. This is the issue flowing…
A couple weeks ago, I reported BEA data showing South Dakota’s farm earnings were down 57% in 2016. The Mitchell Tech-based Center for Farm/Ranch Management gathers similarly…
John Tsitrian reads Senator Mike Rounds’s blah-be-de-blah about agriculture in his Sunday paper and says our junior Senator’s trope about overregulation and hope for higher commodity…
But No Statewide Depression Yet? The Black Hills Knowledge Network notices new Bureau of Economic Analysis data that show personal income in South Dakota grew $480 million last…
Dakota Marketing Coalition, National Farmers Organization, and South Dakota Farmers Union brought a couple of speakers to Aberdeen Monday evening to talk about the chronically…