The Bon Homme County Commission stalled an effort Tuesday to tighten regulation of confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). With the pressure on from neighbors and farmers…
Tag: agriculture
This Session, the South Dakota Legislature passed Senate Bill 98, which repealed the ban on corporate ownership of hog farms in South Dakota. That action was…
Former Agriculture Secretary Walt Bones may be appearing before the Turner County Planning and Zoning Board at its next meeting on Tuesday, May 10. The board’s agenda includes…
If it is at all advisable to take any of Trump’s plaything words as vows of real policy, we can count on his threats of…
Among the less-than-truths Mike Rounds used in 2014 to become our U.S. Senator was his claim that we needed to build Keystone XL to free up…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has asked the South Dakota Supreme Court to render advisory opinions on two bills awaiting his signature: Senate Bill 136, the tax…
The Senate advanced one bad bill for agriculture, the environment, and citizen participation last week; now the House has a chance to pass one good bill for agriculture, the environment,…
The District 1 delegation offered Aberdeen residents their first Legislative crackerbarrel of the year at a “Front Porch Conversation” hosted by the Brown County Democrats…
In his latest Farm and Food File column, Alan Guebert observes that one self-selecting sample of farmers in Iowa and nationwide leans toward Republican Presidential candidates Donald Trump…
The Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society’s Winter Conference is in full swing at the Aberdeen Ramkota. The conference includes a number of vendors pitching their wares…