Some dairy producers want federal insurance comparable to the subsidized insurance farmers get for crops. Congresswoman Kristi Noem, whose husband sells that crop insurance for a living, wants livestock producers to get a more reliable slurp at the federal teat…
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The Minneapolis Star Tribune explains how the failure of Rep. Kristi Noem to pass a real Farm Bill is just one more Republican cave-in to the rich and powerful: A truer and more alarming way to view the one-year extension…
Earlier this year, Congresswoman Kristi Noem threw her support behind Minnesota Congressman Tim Walz's effort to expand the Sodsaver program. The Sodsaver provision of the current Farm Bill prohibits crop insurance for native grasslands that farmers plow into production, but…
In today's farm subsidy report, we learn that small-government Congresswoman Kristi Noem's family continues to rake in federal cash for her vaunted family farm. According to the Environmental Working Group, the Noem-Arnold Racota Valley Ranch took in $68,549 in farm…
The Environmental Working Group alerts us to the "Secret Farm Bill" being hatched by Congressional leaders and the Super Committee. Among the atrocities: the leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees (the former of which South Dakota's Rep. Kristi…
Rep. Kristi Noem and her Republican pals want to block an extension of unemployment benefits... but their Tea Party grinchiness doesn't extend to big farm business: Some GOP lawmakers make the egregious argument that the extended benefits -- an average…
Here's why Democrats have a 50-50 shot at knocking off incumbent freshman Rep. Kristi Noem in 2012. She has a chance to delight conservatives by saying she's cutting government, and instead she tells them to get on board with more…
In defense of her preferred form of income, Congresswoman Kristi Noem serves up the biggest slice of hypocrisy pie I've heard all month: America's farmers and ranchers would take too big of a hit in President Obama's proposed deficit-cutting plan…