South Dakota stands out this week as the nation’s leader in newly reported outbreaks of bird flu: The two outbreaks in South Dakota affect 55,400…
Tag: United States Department of Agriculture
After 12 years of planning and fundraising, the Bennett County Hospital finally broke ground Friday on a $19-million project in Martin to build a new…
Troy Hadrick, an ag-über-alles conservative who thinks advocacy for fighting climate change is a front for dictatorship, happily accepted a $35,000 grant from President Biden’s…
The United States Department of Agriculture this month produced perhaps the best illustration yet of the reality of climate change. On November 15, the USDA…
As Republicans sue to stop the Biden Administration from handing out student loan relief, rural Republicans are staying curiously quiet about the Biden Administration’s handing…
A month ago, Governor Kristi Noem staged a childish freak-out over the USDA’s adherence to anti-discrimination criteria established by the Gorsuch Court in 2018. USDA…
Last week Tennessee Attorney General rounded up a bunch of his Republican colleagues to follow Kristi Noem and other conservative whiners in making political hay…
Jay T. Slaba of Ludlow, South Dakota, is one of five white farmers recruited by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty suing to…
Another black mark of Trumpism was erased yesterday as the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service issued its Agricultural Labor Survey. Last September, the Sonny Perdue…
There is such a thing as a free lunch… at school in Aberdeen and Sioux Falls! The Aberdeen school district announced last week that all…