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…
Tag: agriculture
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…
The Appropriations Committee documents include this table of total property values in South Dakota from 2011 through 2016 (payable 2012 through 2017). In 2011, in the…
Al Novstrup didn’t get the $39-million property tax increase he wanted, but he did vote to raise property tax on farmers. Check out Senate Bill 35,…
Some of my northeastern legislators appear to be reading the blog! Following my post on the harmful impacts a Trump-tweet-trade war with Mexico could have on…
Today’s mantra in agriculture: get big, get a second income, or get hemp? The USDA reports that the number of farms and ranches in South…
—Knock knock! —Who’s there? —Not Mexican corn buyers, if one Mexican Senator gets his way: Mexico is one of the top buyers of American corn in…
Speaking of tax incentives, Governor Dennis Daugaard has submitted his grassy-buffer-strips bill. Senate Bill 66 revisits the issue the Governor vetoed last year on constitutional grounds.…