The billions of dollars the Department of Agriculture credits to agriculture are magic math. South Dakota’s entire GDP is only $45.9 billion. Agriculture cannot generate 55% of…
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Former State Senator Stanford Adelstein pays me to advertise his blog, but he doesn’t have to pay me to link to his solution to raising teacher pay…
Governing looks at Census data on county industry reliance and population changes and finds some correlations that indicate challenges for economic growth in South Dakota. Counties relying heavily on retirement…
Charlie Hoffman, pheasants, and I all like grasslands. The current South Dakota Legislature does not… or at least not enough to support the idea of taxing…
In this morning’s report on the PUC’s approval of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, I mistakenly mentioned that nationally recognized organic farmer Charlie Johnson of Orland had…
Our friend and neighbor Charlie Johnson will see his long-standing organic farm disrupted by the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Public Utilities Commission approved the Bakken oil pipeline yesterday on a…
Rural residents south of Mount Vernon continue to find their quality of life degraded by the stench of Jackrabbit Family Farms’ sow operation, which processes 150,000…
Creighton University’s Mid-America Business Conditions Index continues to find broad economic pessimism among supply managers from North Dakota to Arkansas. Institute for Economic Inquiry director Ernie Goss says…
Last spring, in the midst of the bird flu outbreak that devastated South Dakota turkey and egg factories, South Dakota’s GOP spin blog briefly stepped out from behind…
Dr. David Newquist and Wendell Berry both meditate on the industrial hollowing out of America’s agricultural land and soul. I do both men injustice with mere…