My friends up in Grant County, including Rep. Kathy Tyler (D-4/Big Stone City), are worried that some Minnesota operators are going to stink up their fair county with a whole bunch of pig poop. Grant County approved Teton "Family" Farms'…
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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…
Governor Dennis Daugaard isn't the only public servant headed to China this month to drum up business for South Dakota. In perhaps the first national wire story ever filed from Revillo, Grant-Deuel School District counselor Dave Wagner is going headhunting...…
HB 1006 revises a bunch of obsolete and outdated language in South Dakota's Chapter 13, our laws on education. Among the revisions, I find one notable passage: Section 5. That § 13-6-2 be amended to read as follows: 13-6-2. It…
Three years ago, public opposition drove Riverview Farms to back away from a plan to build a 5700-head dairy feedlot up by Milbank in Grant County. Riverview Farms had good reason to want a big facility in Grant County: Riverview…
Apparently cow poop doesn't stink as much as it used to in Grant County. Last Tuesday the Grant County Planning and Zoning Board received from its study group a detailed recommendation for revising the county's regulations for concentrated animal feeding…