The national news gives West River's October blizzard the usual blippy coverage and chirpy newslady-weatherman banter about being glad they're not in South Dakota (exactly the scene I saw on TV this evening... but never my words. Never.). Be glad…
Posts tagged as “livestock”
South Dakota might not be facing the fallout from the Northern Beef Packers bankruptcy if former Governor M. Michael Rounds had been a yokel and bought local... or in this case, invested local. Carrie Stadheim of Tri-State Livestock News learns…
Why yes, Downtown Vernon Brown, Senate candidate M. Michael Rounds does have a record... a record of failure. Eager reader Bill Dithmer points to another example of Rounds's failure to create any lasting agenda, his stalled South Dakota Certified Beef…
Rep. Kristi Noem showed up to cheer Big Ag in Davison County Friday. The new "Jackrabbit Family Farm" has no rabbits, and it's not a family farm: it's a corporate factory farm that will house 5,000 sows pumping out 125,000…
With her support for more government surveillance, more ag welfare, and more military spending, Rep. Kristi Noem will have as hard a time winning Jim DeMint's seal of approval as M. Michael Rounds. The far-from-liberal rag Pierre Capital Journal smells…
Dick Meyer from Northville, South Dakota, writes in the Pierre Capital Journal that now is a terrible time for Governor Dennis Daugaard to be recruiting more corporate dairies from California: Because drought is affecting a large area of the U.S.,…
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…
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is making possible an increase in U.S. oil production that... is working in tandem with energy-efficiency policy and technology to lead us toward energy self-sufficiency; made us a net exporter of petro-products in 2011 (tell me…