Lake Preston is about to get a big 21st-century employer—a one-billion-dollar refinery that will make jet fuel from local corn ethanol: Gevo is a Colorado-based renewable…
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South Dakota Farmers Union president Doug Sombke is in the Sunday paper telling President Joe Biden he should come to South Dakota, not Saudi Arabia,…
I wonder if Jim Bolin is complaining about all the inflation President Biden is causing in soybeans: Soybeans are selling for 60% more than their…
Maybe farmers should look at pivoting to local production of edible crops. The bottom is dropping out of the already glum ethanol-corn market: The per-gallon…
South Dakota’s harvest is proceeding slowly. According to the latest stats from the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the USD of A, as of Sunday,…
Monday’s USDA crop report says South Dakota’s corn crop is stuck in the mud: Corn condition rated 2 percent very poor, 6 poor, 26 fair,…
I don’t know about knne-high by the Fourth, but at least most of the corn has poked its stalks out of the soil. According to…
South Dakota farmers still haven’t planted most of what they plan to get into the ground this year. As of Sunday, we had in the…
Today’s dreary, drizzly weather brings no relief to South Dakota farmers, who are well behind on planting. Yesterday’s USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service crop progress and…
Somehow I ran across this article from North Dakota State University Extension soil health specialist Abbey Wick, who reports that an experiment on 160 acres…