Last week 29 residents of East Center Street in Madison signed and submitted to the Madison City Commission a letter asking that the city prohibit truck traffic on their newly reconstructed street. East Center most directly connects Highway 34 and…
Posts tagged as “livestock”
Rep. Kristi Noem says passing the farm bill is "a national security issue." She thinks socializing the risk in ranching is more important than long-term conservation practices. So let's do some equal time: the Center for Investigative Reporting says cows…
Does ethanol cause competition between fuel and food? Livestock producers think so. Faced with the current widespread drought, the National Pork Producers Council, the National Chicken Council (no, really!), the National Turkey Federation, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, and several…
I'd say that a handful of our legislators are off gallivanting around the state on the taxpayers' dime... but I don't think you can consider a trip to Harding County "gallivanting." The interim oil and gas study committee is off…
The South Dakota State Brand Board voted last month to increase the brand inspection fee from eighty cents per critter to the legal maximum of a buck a head. Governor Dennis Daugaard apparently has a beef with that increase: Just…
I've mentioned the public health dangers of non-therapeutic or "subtherapeutic" use of antibiotics in livestock on these pages before. District 8 Senate candidate and organic farmer Charlie Johnson has a thought or two on the topic as well. Charlie and…
Win some, lose some. I went to Washington this summer to remind our Congressional delegation that small farmers and ranchers would benefit from serious implementation of the Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) Rule. Our Congressional delegation, alas, was…
My friend Larry Kurtz says some wild things on his blog Interested Party and in various comment sections around the South Dakota blogosphere. But he also directs us toward a lot of good reading, like this essay on the importance…