Wholestone Farms won a narrow victory at the polls in Sioux Falls last November when voters rejected an initiative backed by ethanol magnate Jeff Broin…
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One sign that Corey Lewandowski is back on Kristi Noem’s campaign team is that, instead of ceaselessly pretending that’s she’s built the “strongest economy in…
Our man Porter raises a meaty development. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has changed its interpretation of policy and decided that BPI can…
As usual, when Donald Trump can’t get what he wants through honest deal-making, he cheats… and violates basic Republican principles. To pass its big liberal…
In an apparent effort to make life harder for farmers and poor eaters, the Sonny Perdue USDA has made a strange contracting decision that will…
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…
A couple weeks ago I pointed out sizable cuts that Donald Trump would make to USDA Rural Development programs. Those cuts would cost South Dakota…
The Obama Administration has issued some new pro-farmer, pro-free-market, anti-corporate rules. After years of resistance from Republicans and Big Food, the USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration issued three…