Bob Mercer reports that the South Dakota Supreme Court has sent a legal challenge against Michael Crinion’s proposed 3,999-head factory dairy in the Lake Hendricks watershed…
Tag: CAFOs
Knock five points off whatever lead you think G. Mark Mickelson has in the 2018 gubernatorial race. The Sioux Falls Representative and railroad consultant (remind me to bring that up next…
Gubernatorial candidate Rep. G. Mark Mickelson continues his way-early road show around South Dakota. He brings his “I love CAFOs and the campaign contributions I can get…
The Bon Homme County Commission stalled an effort Tuesday to tighten regulation of confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). With the pressure on from neighbors and farmers…
In another move to take away South Dakotans’ rights in favor of capitalists’ pigs, Senate State Affairs yesterday approved House Bill 1140, Rep. Mark Mickelson’s proposal to reduce citizens’…
House Bill 1140, the latest move in Rep. G. Mark Mickelson’s ongoing effort to make it easier to build giant concentrated animal feeding operations in South…
Rep. G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) wants more confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), the mega-feedlots that South Dakota governors love and that city boys like himself…
Speaking of CAFOs, Turner County is trying again to craft zoning regs that would allow Sonstegard Foods to concentrate six million laying hens just outside of Parker. Judge Tim…
The state Department of Environment and Natural Resources is taking public comment on its proposed revision of the General Water Pollution Control Permit for Concentrated…
Dakota Rural Action and South Dakota Farmers Union say the Department of Environment and Natural Resources left them out of the process of updating the General Water Pollution Control…