We’ve had pretty good planting weather this year. According to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service’s latest crop progress and condition report, as of May…
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Last summer, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that in 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency downplayed or ignored multiple known hazards of Monsanto’s crop-wrecking…
NPR’s Morning Edition discussed the “right to repair” movement among farmers this morning. A Montana farmer turned activist recounted how last summer, as he raced to…
When I mentioned the trouble grain marketer and the state’s contracted concessioneer Jeremey Frost was having following the law surrounding grain contracts, Frost dropped by…
Maybe South Dakota’s Next Big Thing is all that industrial hemp our farmers want to grow. Obstruct and delay as she might, Governor Kristi Noem…
Uh oh: NPR reports that General Mills’s attempt to grow organic macaroni in South Dakota has turned its corporate mega-farm northwest of Fort Pierre into…
Jay T. Slaba of Ludlow, South Dakota, is one of five white farmers recruited by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty suing to…
Did you know global shipping is short on shipping containers… and it’s our fault? We Americans are importing more stuff, and apparently we’re so slow at…
I remember when Bob Mercer didn’t know a hyperlink from a hashtag. Now he’s digging up documents and Facebook connections like the best of bloggers.…
Coronavirus itself didn’t pose much direct threat to farmers’ operations. Most of their work is socially distanced already, and we all have kept eating right…