Should we call Senator Marion Michael Rounds “Minnesota Mike” for collaborating with Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar on a new federal bill seeking to turn cropland…
Tag: livestock
The Department of Agriculture (and Natural Resources) says it needs to increase costs for livestock producers right now! House Bill 1020, requested by the DA(NR),…
Agricultural data from the new Davison County comprehensive plan show the concentration of livestock in fewer big operations in South Dakota. According to the plan’s…
John Thune doesn’t want us regulating cow farts; is he o.k. With capitalizing on bovine emissions? Factory dairy operator Riley Boadwine of Baltic isn’t strapping…
University of Iowa environmental engineering researcher Chris Jones blogs about the tension between agriculture and a healthy environment. (“Farmers are stewards of the land” is…
Lincoln County residents get to vote next week on whether to allow a new beef plant to stink up the neighborhood around Worthing. East Dakota…
We don’t produce much oil here in South Dakota—the total crude pumped out of Harding, Fall River, and Custer counties in 2020 was less than…
An eager reader sends me to articles: one with Bloomberg’s observations on Governor Kristi Noem’s tyrannical, murderous, but useful-as-counterexample experiment in herd immunity: As many…
Senator Marion Michael Rounds is calling on the federal government (you know, the one run by his pal Donald Trump) to stop sending unclear signals…
As he finally takes action to protect his Sioux Falls workforce and the entire city from the coronavirus that has broken out in his evidently…