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…
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The Public Utilities Commission is swamped with wind farm applications—isn’t this the problem South Dakota has long wanted to have? Altogether there were five wind projects…
The state isn’t just giving away varmint traps; it’s teaching people how to use them: Being involved in a recent series of trapper education courses…
The new USDA 2017 Census of Agriculture offers one sad statistic of overarching importance for South Dakota: for the first time since statehood, the number…
The state Department of Tourism just issued a March slideshow by the British firm Tourism Economics analyzing the economic impact of tourism in South Dakota in…
The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association reports that South Dakota is one of 32 states that are investing less per student now on higher…
Back in 2011, South Dakota had the fifth-worst rate of bridge deficiency in the United States, with 20.3% of our bridges deemed structurally deficient. The…
Bonus data! The January 2019 rural broadband study from Old Dominion and USD comes with beaucoup appendices, which include this table showing racial income disparities…
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,…
The Department of Labor and Regulation released results of its latest Employee Benefits Survey yesterday. Among other highlights, 50% of firms responding to the survey…