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…
Tag: CAFO
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources may have excluded the grassroots from the process of drafting a new General Water Pollution Control Permit for Concentrated Animal Feeding…
With four lawsuits currently challenging Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in the I-29 corridor, South Dakotans might be interested in hearing the other side of Governor Daugaard’s unmitigated…
Speaking of CAFOs, Watertown appears to be caught in the crosshairs of Governor Daugaard’s push for more dairy production. Brookings County factory dairy magnate Michael Crinion wants to…
CAFOs and biochar headline two educational social events near Brookings this weekend. First up, Dakota Rural Action is hosting “Beyond the Barn,” a combination potluck and lecture…
Rep. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) thinks South Dakota needs more confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). He pushed legislation, HB 1201, that took effect yesterday making…
Ag United wants you to know that the Minnehaha County Commission is hearing appeals on two Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) tomorrow, Tuesday, June 16: The…
If Barack Obama and McDonald’s are working together, then the plan must be evil, right? The Tri-State Neighbor reports that McDonald’s is fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria by getting…
Senator John Thune comes to Groton, and we get more pro-CAFO propaganda for loosening immigration rules to provide South Dakota dairies with more easy-to-exploit foreign…
That Sioux Falls paper picks up a March 23 article from the Tri-State Neighbor that repeats a cry we’ve heard before from other CAFO dons: South Dakota’s big dairies want Uncle…