The Shannon Hutterite Colony of Miner County wants to build a big new dairy in Miner County. The colony's confined animal feeding operation would sit seven miles east and south of Howard, or a couple crow-flying miles southwest of Virgil's…
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Senate Bill 155 challenges my political sensibilities. SB 155 would establish a "local government road improvement grant fund" to rebuild local roads and bridges. As you bump along to work this morning, you'll likely agree our state needs to invest…
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…
Conventional wisdom says politicians are the big manure spreaders. But Representative-Elect Kathy Tyler (D-4/Milbank) faces some some new neighbors who want to move in and spread manure around her neighborhood. According to a new Facebook page, "When Pigs Fly," Tyler…
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…
The running Republican narrative is that the Obama Administration, embodied in its fullest evil in the Environmental Protection Agency, is out to regulate every man, woman, and child out of business. Wait a minute: Four years after the U.S. Government…
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.…
Lake County residents don't cotton to my criticism very well, but many of them seem willing to acquiesce to the unhealthy environmental and economic practices of Rick Millner as he seeks to expand the Ramona dairy his pals acquired for…