Smithfield Foods has been trying to scare us away from restricting its activities at its coronavirus-riddled Sioux Falls plant by warning that any disruption of…
Tag: trade
Donald Trump is tired of coronavirus damaging rural America. He wants to get back doing that damage himself: “Tariff Man”said Thursday, “we signed a trade deal…
If wishes were ponies, then beggars would ride, and if resolutions were bills, then legislators might get things done. Cowed by their failure to take…
Are you feeling depressed? So is the economy, thanks to Donald Trump’s reckless tariffs. In a briefing this week meant to fluff the White House’s…
Is South Dakota’s business model pure crap? We threaten, bribe, and finally just dissolve the power of counties to promote factory feedlots to churn out…
The pro-corporate Farm Bureau reports that the Trump era has brought the highest yearly increase in Chapter 12 family farm bankruptcies since the Great Recession:…
We’re working toward repairing two big Trump disasters this week. The House Democrats are restoring NAFTA, which Trump needlessly tore up two years ago. Trade…
The United States Heartland China Association, a seemingly benign, not overtly Communist organization, took Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken on a trip to China, and…
An eager reader shares an interesting survey from Iowa State University showing the bunkum corn and soybean farmers in Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois are using…
If we can get that corn out of the ground, maybe we can get Egypt to buy it! Rookie Representative Michael Saba (D-9/Hartford), who speaks…