KELO blips an AP report on the USDA-NASS 2009 On-Farm Energy Production Survey. This first-ever count of renewable energy use in agriculture finds a tiny percentage of South Dakota farms are installing wind turbines and solar panels and saving a…
Posts tagged as “agriculture”
The Los Angeles Times reports on efforts to root out waste, fraud, and profiteering in the federal crop insurance program. The program ballooned, thanks to insurance industry lobbying and federal rules that make it tough for farmers to go without…
Court May Finalize Deal Friday, January 28 Megadairy operator Riverview has made an offer to take the bankrupt Veblen dairies off financier AgStar's hands. According to motions filed yesterday by bankruptcy trustees Lee Ann Pierce (Veblen East, Case 10-10146, Document…
Rumors continue to swirl up around Veblen, South Dakota, as folks try to figure out just what will happen with the two giant, bankrupt dairies that are now up for liquidation. I hear from locals that police have been patrolling…
Memo to you South Dakota legislators who think its more important to sing right-wing karaoke about immigration than to fix the budget and fund education: the Farm Bureau is not on your side. At its annual convention, the corporate lobbying…
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Charles Nail yesterday approved trustee motions to sell the Veblen East and Veblen West mega-dairies to AgStar Financial's acquisition companies. Court documents indicate that no objections were filed to the Veblen West sale, and the only…
What's that under my tree? Christmas bills! Yahoo! Start your RSS engines: the first pieces of legislation to be proposed in the 2011 session of the South Dakota State Legislature are in the e-hopper. First in from the State House:…
Someone please unspin this for me: Kristi Noem, soon to be South Dakota's lone Representative in the U.S. House, for all her supposed pull with the new Republican majority, fails to land a seat on the House Agriculture Committee. The…