Governor Kristi Noem’s factory feedlot zoning bill, Senate Bill 157, still awaits its first hearing before Senate State Affairs. That’s more attention than new applications…
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Evidently feeling that her massive CAFO bribes to counties aren’t enough to secure the supremacy of meat milk and manure factories in South Dakota, Governor…
by Nancy Johnson Wirsing This article responds to a three-part series of articles in the Gregory Times Advocate by South Dakota News Watch reporter Bart…
Yankton County Commission Chair Cheri Loest says the commission wants to encourage local secessionists not to yank their four townships out of the county to…
Gregory County cartoonist Jo Johnson is not unfamiliar with the smell of cow poop. She rents pasture for cattle and crops—pasture, where cattle have room…
More money is flowing out of Pierre in secret. Bob Mercer reports that the state Board of Economic Development approved handing $941,962 from the public…
Yankton County faces a secession movement from four townships making up the northeastern quarter-plus of the county. Continuing the farm-entitlement mindset, farmers in Mayfield, Turkey…
Remember how back in September the state Board of Economic Development rejected Triple H Wind Farm’s request for a sales tax kickback? Just kidding—Merry Christmas!…
Long-time Yankton Stockmen’s Livestock Market owner Gail Sohler apparently has some regrets about his involvement in the ag-industrial complex. In this remarkable letter to the…
Hey, county commissioners! Would you like to learn about confined animal feeding operations from someone who isn’t out to make a buck on them? Then…