Marshall Korn grew up around dairy cows in Minnesota and South Dakota. When he graduated from Garretson High School in 2001, he wanted to become a dairy…
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Here’s a farm program guaranteed not to suffer from state subsidy or other corporate favors from Pierre: the Deuel County Chapter of Dakota Rural Action is hosting an…
Can no one from Aberdeen run an honest visa operation? The local press picks up a story this week about a September 1, 2015, ruling from a…
Texas A&M reports that the majority of America’s dairy workers are immigrants: Nearly 77,000 immigrants worked on dairy farms in 2014 out of about 150,000 employees nationwide, according to a…
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…
South Dakota Public Broadcasting acts as state government’s propaganda wing by promoting Ag United’s dairy tours, in which Big Ag tells South Dakotans that organic…
The Tri-State Neighbor reports that SDSU’s new minors in precision agriculture, genetics, and fod manufacturing represent a shift away from a previous focus on helping people…
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…