The Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society’s Winter Conference is in full swing at the Aberdeen Ramkota. The conference includes a number of vendors pitching their wares…
Tag: environment
Before you head to Rapid City or Sioux Falls to hear Koch Brothers’ propagandist Stephanie Maier reinforce your failing sense of white privilege by telling…
Rural residents south of Mount Vernon continue to find their quality of life degraded by the stench of Jackrabbit Family Farms’ sow operation, which processes 150,000…
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…
Canada went Bizarro-Bush last night by electing a majority-Liberal government and replacing Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper with Justin Trudeau, son of 1970s–1980s PM Pierre Trudeau.…
Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota is coming to South Dakota. No, he’s not setting up a kiosk at the Empire Mall to try to convince…
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…
O.K., Larry Kurtz is right. Grass is such a politically potent issue that it can topple even Governor Dennis Daugaard’s plans: Based on input from the…
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…