3.86 million acres of South Dakota cropland are lying fallow this year due to our awful wet spring: In South Dakota alone, a total of…
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The latest USDA crop progress report confirms what a drive past a lot of brown fields along I-29 will tell you: a lot of farmers are…
South Dakota farmers still haven’t planted most of what they plan to get into the ground this year. As of Sunday, we had in the…
South Dakota’s Department of Agriculture very sensibly set June 30 as the last day farmers can apply drift-prone dicamba herbicide. Senator Justin Cronin (R-23/Gettysburg) is…
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…
Our shadowy wind power opponents tried dashing their Quixotic lances into the expansion of renewable energy in South Dakota with House Bill 1226, a failed…
We have no stats on the participation rate in Governor Kristi Noem’s statewide day of prayer, in which she presumed to supplant the liturgy and…
Two years ago, Republicans told us to pray for rain. Now Minister-in-Chief Kristi Noem wants us to pray for folks who don’t need any more…
South Dakota is closed: Gov. Kristi Noem has ordered the closure of state government offices in all South Dakota counties Thursday (today) due to the…
I keep hearing the newscasters on South Dakota Public Radio reciting a distressing phrase to describe some CAFO complications: Officials with the Department of Environment…