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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, center, is joined by other Republican governors as she speaks during a news conference along the Rio Grande River, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.

Gov. Noem uses southern border, drugs as race-bait says Crow Creek Sioux Tribe

Rae Yost / KELO
September 11, 2023
Local, News

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Officials from the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said Gov. Kristi Noem implied in an Aug. 21 news conference in Texas that all nine tribal lands in the state are hotbeds for drug cartels and tribal members are involved. “That was very disheartening,” said Peter Lengkeek, the chairman of […]

SD Farm Bureau

SD Lt. Governor, Larry Rhoden (right) and SDSecretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Hunter Roberts.

Trade mission to Mexico will promote South Dakota ag businesses

Mike Tanner / KWAT Radio
July 19, 2023
Agriculture

WATERTOWN, S.D. – Among the news coming out of the recent South Dakota Governor’s Agricultural Summit was the announcement of an upcoming trade mission. Luke Lindberg, president and CEO of South Dakota Trade, a company that navigates international trade deals, announced a South Dakota delegation will be on a trade mission to Mexico in September. […]

AP/Nate Jenkins

Weigh up horses are sold to be shipped to Canada and Mexico for slaughter.

Legislation to end export of horses to other countries for slaughter

SD Ag Connection
May 26, 2021
Agriculture

WASHINGTON, DC – Federal lawmakers reintroduced legislation to permanently ban horse slaughter in the United States and end the current export of American horses for slaughter abroad. Sponsored by U.S. Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), the Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act is supported by leading animal welfare groups, including the ASPCA […]

Vilsack: Mexico GMO corn ban won’t apply to animal feed

SD Ag Connection
April 1, 2021
Agriculture

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that a Mexican plan to ban imports of genetically modified corn would apply to grain used for human food products, not livestock feed, based on recent talks he had with Mexican Agriculture Secretary Victor Villalobos Arambula. Vilsack said limiting the ban to food products makes a […]