Let’s hope profit opportunities from the agricultural shortages Putin has caused don’t reverse the positive trend in CRP enrollments in South Dakota. Joshua Haiar reports…
Tag: agriculture
Russia and Ukraine produce 60% of the world’s sunflower oil. The Ukrainian Electronic Grain Exchange says that, despite war and a cold, wet spring delaying…
But dang it, just as I cheer our increasing use of wind power, NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy gets fined over $8 million for killing…
Amanda Radke apparently makes a good living “Fighting for Faith, Family, Freedom, & Farming,” which is code for cranking out pro-corporate Big Ag propaganda writing…
The Department of Agriculture (and Natural Resources) announces it has added Dr. Brent Gloy of Agricultural Economic Insights to the roster of speakers at the June…
Last week, Summit Carbon Solutions of Iowa announced that it has formally asked the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission to permit its proposed Midwest Carbon…
Representative Trish Ladner (R-30/Hot Springs) and Senator Jessica Castleberry (R-35/Rapid City) got off their right-wing radicalism long enough last fall to talk about assessing certain…
Big investors and cash buyers aren’t just squeezing working folks out of the housing market. They are also keeping regular folks, especially folks of color, out…
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…
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…