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…
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—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.…
Corporations doing business in South Dakota have to register and file annual reports with the Secretary of State. However, the Secretary of State would like to let…
A bill to get rid of grades and standards? It’s my K-12 education dream come true! Wait: Senate Bill 13 would “repeal certain provisions concerning potato grades…
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…
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…