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…
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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…
Some rural partisans have tried to prevent President Biden and the Democratic Congress from rebuilding America’s infrastructure by stirring fears that the President’s plan to…
The Department of Agriculture (and Natural Resources) and Game Fish and Parks put out a reminder last week of Harmful Algal Blooms in several South…
South Dakota’s ag-industrial complex doesn’t cotton (corn? bean?) to hearing that agriculture generates only 5.78% of South Dakota’s gross domestic product. They thus feel compelled…
KELO Radio’s Todd Epp notices an article from Commodity.com that says South Dakota derives a larger portion of its economic output from agriculture than any…
Whiny white farmers fronting for racist Stephen Miller have shut down President Biden’s plan to target debt relief to minority farmers who’ve suffered systemic discrimination from…
The pork industry can’t afford to wait for workers to “Call me when you’re an American.” The National Pork Producers Council says that if we…