An eager reader puts two and two together and comes up with outrage. The Senate passed the Farm Bill Monday, 66–27. Senator Tim Johnson voted for it, emphasizing the $250,000 cap on payments to farmers ($125K per farmer, doubled if…
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Speaking of Republicans inspired by Communists, Senator John Thune and Rep. Kristi Noem's commitment to expanding the socialization of risk through crop insurance (the product her husband Bryon sells) will increase taxpayer costs and encourage bad farming practices. If we…
School and Public Lands Commissioner Jarrod Johnson recognizes how the federal crop insurance program (which crop insurance salesman's wife Kristi Noem wants to expand) causes farmers to plow up land that's better for other uses than crops. Now South Dakota…
The conservative American Enterprise Institute howls that the Senate version of the Farm Bill is full of tricks to hide increased spending and anti-free market subsidies. AEI praises the Senate for eliminating the Direct Payments program ($5 billion of savings!),…
In another strange twist of events, I find myself sympathizing with Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. The Republican Minority Leader tried but failed yesterday to get the fast-tracked Farm Bill to legalize industrial hemp. McConnell has strong support from back…
The Farm Bill finally hits the fast track this week in Washington. This flurry of action does not come as a result of Congresswoman Kristi Noem's efforts, which consist mostly of fallacious reasoning on global trade and assertions that farm…
Rep. Kristi Noem got off the phone long enough to actually speak at a committee hearing yesterday. She thought it would be cute to ask USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack about a leaked e-mail he hadn't seen yet that purportedly shows…
David Lias posts the South Dakota Farmers Union's summary of former Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin's address to the group's annual convention Friday. She says the failure of Congress to pass a farm bill is entirely the House GOP's fault: The…