In today’s round-up of news on the harm Donald Trump is doing to the farm economy: Agtegra says it’s lucky it consolidated last year, since…
Tag: tariffs
Democratic candidate for U.S. House Tim Bjorkman has stated unequivocally that the Trump tariffs are hurting South Dakota agriculture. His Republican opponent, Dusty Johnson, agrees…
Know what else will cost more due to Trump’s unnecessary trade war? Quilts and fleece blankies. Baum Textile Mills of New Jersey tells its wholesale…
Kristi Noem runs hot and cold on the economy. In April, she said South Dakota’s economy is “stagnant“: Noem cited the state’s slow economic growth,…
G. Mark Mickelson may want to add another service to his CAFO-consulting portfolio: guidance on how to control stink, noise, and bugs so they don’t…
An Alabama economist goes roadtripping through South Dakota and finds us growing steel and aluminum in our corn fields… Imagine, for example, that someone invented…
Farm Forum editor Stan Wise is glad the Trump Administration is making taxpayers shell out welfare for farmers to pay for the trade war, but……
The Commerce Department just announced that U.S. gross domestic product grew in our second quarter by 4.1%, the strongest rate since 2014. In other words,…
You know how Republicans like to say that we Democrats created the welfare state to trap an entire class of Americans permanently poor and dependent…
My local paper keys in on one dire phrase that our Congressional delegation used in its please-stop-the-beatings letter to Donald Trump, “the brink of economic collapse” facing…