University of Iowa environmental engineering researcher Chris Jones blogs about the tension between agriculture and a healthy environment. (“Farmers are stewards of the land” is…
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Hat tip to eager reader Mike from Iowa! A University of Iowa researcher shares my suspicion that the carbon-capture pipeline that SDGOP chair Dan Lederman…
In keeping with our economic dependence on socialism, government employs more South Dakotans than any other industry sector. According to the Bureau of Finance and…
The Department of Agriculture (and Natural Resources) updated Joint Appropriations yesterday on its effort to recruit landowners to convert 3,000 more acres of streamside cropland and…
Ask farmers if they are better off under President Joe Biden than they were a year ago, and the majority, if they can take off…
Last Wednesday was bad harvest weather, what with rain all day long, so about 75 landowners had time to come to Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions’…
Speaking of how we tax agricultural land, Rapid City attorney and columnist David Ganje notes that the productivity formula used to calculate the maximum potential…
Agribusiness continues to stand in the way of robustly diversified economic development in South Dakota. Visionaries are working to create a 75-mile rail to trail…
Radical right-wing Representative Trish Ladner (R-30/Hot Springs) and Senator Jessica Castleberry (R-35/Rapid City) are trying to keep taxes down for their West River ranching constituents.…
More than five years ago, the Legislature passed 2016 House Bill 1007, directing the Department of Revenue to get SDSU economists to update the soil…