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…
Tag: agriculture
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…
We don’t get anywhere telling Governor Dennis Daugaard and the Republican Legislature that we need to pay English teachers and music teachers more, because who…
South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Lucas Lentsch thinks the Trans-Pacific Partnership will help South Dakota farmers by further opening foreign markets for our ag exports. Ag columnist…
Not flip-flopping on TPP: Lucas Lentsch, South Dakota Secretary of Factory Farming Agriculture. In March, Secretary Lentsch said the Trans-Pacific Partnership would be great for South Dakota ag…
Hillary Clinton’s reversal to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership shows that Senator Bernie Sanders is winning (winning what, I’ll let the commentariat debate!). RNC chief Reince Priebus says Clinton’s…
Bob Mercer links to this map from the Public Utilities Commission’s hearing on the Dakota Access Pipeline, showing how the Bakken oil shipper will hook into Energy Partners’ national…