Resigning Secretary of Agriculture Walt Bones sums up his two-year tenure in state government with a single telling sentence at the bottom of Peter Harriman's report: "I didn’t get into this to be a career," Bones said of being Agriculture…
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Civil engineer Todd Van Maanen of Yankton just received recognition from the South Dakota Pork Producers Council for all of his work in designing big factory livestock operations. (Check out this interactive map of factory farms across the country.) In…
Walt Bones can't write: It seems that our Holiday Season has been commandeered by the “Fiscal Cliff” discussions in Washington, DC. I’m not sure who “Cliff” is but judging by the rhetoric I hear, they must be referencing Cliff Clavin…
The South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture's major crop this year is sour grapes. Hundreds of Hanson County residents turn back a proposal to damage their roads and water and air with a 7000-head concentrated animal feeding operation, and Secretary Walt…
Agriculture Secretary Walt Bones is boosting the state's propaganda effort to force local governments into line with the state's "Get Big or Get Out" ag-industrial policy. For years, South Dakota has given preferential treatment to massive concentrated animal feeding operations.…
Oh, the myopia! In his Thursday article on the battle over a proposed 7000-head dairy in Hanson County, intrepid reporter Tom Lawrence gets mega-dairy operator and South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Walt Bones on the record as "puzzled": Bones said…
Tom Lawrence at the Mitchell Daily Republic launches a five-part series on South Dakota's dairy industry with this report on industry trends. The series is of particular interest to Hanson County residents, who may find themselves hosting a 7000-head dairy…
State Agriculture Secretary Advocates Dairy, Despite Questionable Cluelessness About Local Concerns The DENR's Water Management Board met Wednesday, July 13, to discuss, among other things, Water Rights Application No. 7239-3 from Hanson County Dairy. Brookings County dairy entrepreneur Michael Crinion…