The State of South Dakota and its favored mega-dairy industry are advertising to lure dairy operators to our fair state: Two South Dakota dairy processors put up billboards in Tulare County, Calif., which has about 340,000 dairy cows, saying "All…
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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…
Concerned Citizens of Hanson County have beat back a proposal for a 7000-head mega-dairy near Fulton. After trying for over five years to bring this development to Hanson County, Brookings-based dairy developer Michael Crinion has withdrawn his application to the…
Rep. Stace Nelson (R-25/Fulton) reports on Twitter and Facebook that he and his Hanson County neighbors have prevailed in court against Brookings dairy developer Michael Crinion. Hanson County Concerned Citizens took their county to court, contending that CAFO kingpin Crinion…
Last year associates of dairy-disaster-maker Rick Millner purchased the old Swier Dairy near Ramona and renamed it the Lake County Dairy. I warned that if Millner was coming to the county, there was a fair chance that he'd bring his…
Stace Nelson (R-Fulton) will win another term as new District 19 Representative for the same reason that Frank Kloucek (D-Scotland) won old-District 19's vote so often and stands a good chance of carpooling with Nelson next January. No, not kolaches.…
The South Dakota Supreme Court has closed another chapter in Richard Millner's dairy shenanigans in Veblen. In a unanimous decision issued Wednesday, the justices upheld Fifth Circuit Judge Jack Von Wald's issuance of summary judgment in favor of defendants Richard…
Stace Nelson isn't entirely full of crap... and a court victory yesterday may keep his Hanson County water supply from ending up entirely full of crap. Nelson and his neighbor Rob Bender appealed the state Water Management Board's approval of…