You know who's driving up farm land prices? Corporations and foreign investors: In November 2012, UBS AgriVest, a unit of the Swiss banking giant UBS, paid $67.5 million, or nearly $7,000 per acre, for about 9,800 acres in southwest Wisconsin.…
Posts tagged as “dairy”
The state Department of Agriculture made a gross error last month in announcing that Brookings County dairy Jerseydale Farms was selling raw milk with dangerous bacteria in it and closing down the operation for a few days. An eager reader…
The South Dakota Department of Agriculture unnecessarily shut down Brookings-area dairy Jerseydale Farms two weeks ago. The Department of Agriculture still hasn't apologized. Read their terse little oopsie, which studiously avoids saying oopsie: The South Dakota Department of Agriculture announces…
On January 21, the South Dakota Department of Agriculture reported finding listeria in a raw milk sample from Jerseydale Farms of Brookings. The Department shut down the small dairy and issued this business-harming warning: The South Dakota Department of Agriculture…
...or at least illness and mountain lion attacks. Earlier this year, Bob Mercer encouraged the corporate-fascist propaganda that opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline and Powertech in-situ uranium mine pose terrorist threats. Seemingly switching gears, in an opinion column last…
Open the speculation floodgates.... Governor Dennis Daugaard announced today that Attorney General Marty Jackley and federal law enforcement have been investigating the Governor's Office of Economic Development for financial misconduct. Not his Office of Economic Development, Daugaard emphasizes, but someone…
The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and independent dairy producers have been tussling all year over raw milk regulations. The state, which has a clear bias against anyone other than huge CAFO mega-dairies trying to make milk, has proposed rules…
My friends (and yours!) at Dakota Rural Action are on quite a few warpaths this summer. They've organized film screenings and effective grassroots resistance against Powertech's proposed uranium mining in the Black Hills. Dakota Rural Action is also protesting the…