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,…
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Even before Governor Kristi Noem’s CAFO bribes can really kick in, South Dakota is already enjoying a bacon boom. According to the latest USDA National…
“Loose Cow Causes Hartley School Lockdown,” reads the headline our friend Mike from Iowa sends. Security theater gone amuck, I think. Children subjected to PTSD…
On May 15 the Governor’s Office of Economic Development hosted a webinar on its new CAFO-county bribe program. GOED appears not to have YouTubalized that…
On the good side of the farm report, South Dakota made a little more milk last month (assuming you like milk and cheese and the udder…
The USDA’s latest cattle inventory says that, as of January 1, 2019, there were just about 29 bovines for every 100 Americans. Divide ’em all up,…
Aberdeen got no snow, but Huron got 18 inches, Chamberlain and Stickney got 14, and Winner got 20. The Department of Public Safety hasn’t heard…
The Ninth Circuit dealt a blow to the USDA’s Beef Checkoff program Monday. The court upheld a lower court ruling and said the USDA can’t…
House Majority Leader Lee Qualm (R-21/Platte) is playing all-beef patsy for Speaker Mickelson, telling WNAX that there isn’t much the Legislature can do to help…
The Animal Industry Board spent 90 minutes discussing the ban on video auctions of livestock in South Dakota. (I didn’t even know we had such…