Donald Trump supposedly won the Presidency on the strength of his appeal to rural America. But as we have often noted on this blog, rural America…
Tag: agriculture
I spoke in error Sunday. I said that Governor Dennis Daugaard, who is asking President-Elect Donald Trump to protect the federal government’s support for ethanol and other…
The Obama Administration has issued some new pro-farmer, pro-free-market, anti-corporate rules. After years of resistance from Republicans and Big Food, the USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration issued three…
I predicted last night that Rep. Kristi Noem wouldn’t give up running for Governor in 2018 to serve as Donald Trump’s window dressing in the Department…
The Class Act of the Week is Democratic Senator Jim Peterson (D-4/Revillo). Senator Peterson proposed Senate Bill 136 this year to incentivize grassy buffer strips…
…and Whose Fault Is That Unfairness? Rep. Al Novstrup and I agree that South Dakota’s current method of assessing agricultural land for property tax is a mess.…
One of the complaints against Senate Bill 136, the bipartisan grassy buffer strips bill that Governor Dennis Daugaard vetoed last spring, was that the bill…
If you want the Governor to sign a bill, it can’t have a “D” in front of it. It has to have two Ds. Following signals…
Did Rep. Kristi Noem lie to us about her abdication from the House Agriculture Committee? Facing criticism from Democratic challenger Rep. Paula Hawks for abandoning South Dakota’s agricultural interests in…
The ever engaging, enthusiastic, and enlightening Rep. Paula Hawks spent Friday at the Brown County Fair asking voters to send her to Washington. The Democrat…