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The South Dakota Junior Beef Ambassadors will be highlighting the book in local schools, aiming to donate and read it to elementary classes during National Ag Week, March 17-23, 2024.

Rowdy The Cow Kid: A New Adventure In Rural Life

March 6, 2024
Agriculture

PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Beef Industry Council, in collaboration with ag storytellers Amanda Radke and Michelle Weber, is proud to announce the release of their new children’s book, “The Journal of Rowdy the Cow Kid”. This book is designed to engage young readers in the day-to-day life of a farm or ranch kid […]

Livestock Predator Management Part Of Farm, Home Show

March 6, 2024
Agriculture

LEMMON, S.D. – The SDSU Extension, in collaboration with the South Dakota Sheep Growers Association, is setting the stage for a groundbreaking discussion on livestock predator management. Scheduled for March 8, 2024, during the KBJM Farm and Home Show, this seminar promises to shed light on effective strategies against sheep’s most formidable foes: coyotes and […]

This rule is part of a suite of Packers and Stockyards Act rules proposed by USDA to enhance transparency, stop discrimination, and support market fairness in a range of circumstances. The final rule will be published in the Federal Register.

Packer’s & Stockyards Act Strengthened By New Rules

March 5, 2024
Agriculture

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Over the past three years, producers from ranch country have been testifying to Congress about their experiences and fears when dealing with meat packers in the U.S. “Discrimination, retaliation, and deception against producers and growers has no place in modern livestock and poultry markets,” said Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, while listening […]

From left, Steve Westra, former Commissioner of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, Lt. Gov. Larry Rhoden, Gevo CEO Patrick Gruber, Lake Preston Mayor Andy Wienk and First Gentleman Bryon Noem participate in a ceremonial groundbreaking for Gevo’s Net-Zero 1 project near Lake Preston, S.D., Sept. 15, 2022. (Courtesy Lt. Gov. Larry Rhoden/Twitter)

“This is such a wild-ass dream, it’s not even funny”

March 3, 2024
Agriculture

PIERRE, S.D. – The largest economic development project in South Dakota history hinges on two things: a carbon pipeline and a $950 million federal loan guarantee. If the former doesn’t happen, according to the company’s CEO, the money secured through the latter won’t land in South Dakota. But opponents of the project and the Summit […]

House Majority Leader Will Mortenson, R-Fort Pierre, speaking on the state House floor on Jan. 16, 2024, said his update to the bill regulating pipelines returns the right to regulate setbacks to counties.

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Rulemaking back to counties – unless PUC says otherwise

February 29, 2024
Agriculture

PIERRE, S.D. – A state House panel updated a high-profile carbon pipeline bill to retain county rights to regulate pipeline locations. But that change was accompanied by another that would force the state’s Public Utilities Commission to overrule counties if their pipeline rules are too burdensome. It’s the latest twist for Senate Bill 201. The bill, […]

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Sept. 28, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

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Rounds attempts to stop beef imports from Paraguay

February 28, 2024
Agriculture

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, and Jon Tester, D-Montana, said Tuesday that they have filed a Congressional Review Act resolution that would overturn the Biden administration’s recent decision to lift a ban on beef imports from Paraguay. Congress can use CRA resolutions to overturn final rules issued by federal agencies by a simple majority […]

Renae Gebhart, Lemmon, S.D., (pictured with John Dady, Key Agency in Mobridge and Mercedes Snedeker, SD FFA Advisor) is among the eight finalists for the Golden Owl Award.

SD FFA Foundation

South Dakota’s leading agriculture teachers recognized

February 28, 2024
Agriculture, News

BATH, S.D. – Educators devote limitless time and often their own resources to helping students pursue their passions. To recognize the contributions of South Dakota’s leading agricultural teachers, the South Dakota FFA Foundation and Nationwide are honoring eight exceptional teachers as finalists for the Golden Owl Award. From October through December 2023, nominations were collected […]

Both safety net programs, delivered by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), provide vital income support to farmers who experience substantial declines in crop prices or revenues for the 2024 crop year.

USDA

Deadline to apply for USDA safety net programs nearing

February 28, 2024
Agriculture

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Agricultural producers who have not yet enrolled in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2024 crop year have until March 15, 2024, to revise elections and sign contracts. Both safety net programs, delivered by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), provide vital income support to farmers […]

The new legislation specifically exempts most foreign-held leases for concentrated animal feeding operations – also known as CAFO’s – in South Dakota.

Foreign ownership restricted, leasing still an option

February 27, 2024
Agriculture

PIERRE, S.D. — The Governor finally got what she wanted a year ago in HB1231 when state senators – on a 30-2 vote – gave final legislation approval last Friday to a bill that restricts foreign ownership of ag land in South Dakota. But it didn’t go so far as to remove the elephant in […]

The old sheep shed was demolished to make room for the Dakota Events Center (DEX) after the former beef facility burned down in October 2020.

SDSU Extension

New sheep barn on state fairgrounds on hold

February 26, 2024
Agriculture

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Stakeholders in the sheep industry in South Dakota have been waiting patiently for a new sheep barn on the state fairgrounds, Republican Rep. Roger Chase said on Wednesday. They will wait a bit longer as the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Appropriations deferred action on House Bill 1065 that will allow $8 […]

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Leola Ann Schultz, age 83, of Minnesota, formerly of Midland, South Dakota, died on Saturday, March 30, 2024 […]

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