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RAPID CITY, SD – — Drought conditions in South Dakota are expected to continue through the fall. The newly released drought outlook from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows dry conditions could lead to a warmer-than-average winter. State Fire meteorologist Darren Clabo says a lack of snow could lead to problems with agriculture and wildfires […]
MITCHELL, SD – The 2023 Old Farmer’s Almanac is predicting a cold and snowy winter for much of the Northern Plains. Associate Editor Tim Goodwin says South Dakota is right in the heart of it. “This is going to be a year of ‘a tale of two winters’ for the country. A good section of […]
VERNON, CA – Smithfield Foods, the largest pork processor in the world, will close its Vernon, California, plant and reduce its hog herd in the West, the company announced Friday. Owned by Hong Kong-listed WH Group Ltd, Smithfield Food is withdrawing from California by early next year, citing red tape like that from Proposition 12 […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Rapid City is in the upper eight-percent of fastest growing cities in all of the nation, and the fastest in the Midwest. That’s according to the US Census Bureau. From 2020 to 2021, Rapid city grew by nearly two percent or triple the national average. That works out to be about […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Continuing dryness in the Central and Western states and the Midwest is impacting nearly $180 billion of U.S. ag production. Data from the American Farm Bureau (AFB) shows most of the U.S.’s top ag commodities are grown or raised in states experiencing extended dryness – like 81 percent of cattle and calves. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In 2018, six U.S. trading partners-Canada, China, the European Union, India, Mexico, and Turkey-announced retaliatory tariffs affecting agricultural and food products in retaliation to former President Donald Trump’s trade policies. The agricultural products targeted for retaliation were valued at $30.4 billion in 2017, with individual product lines experiencing tariff increases ranging from […]
WASHINGTON, DC – A long-running trade dispute between the United States and the European Union has been overcome and is getting a round of applause from American wheat growers. The retaliatory tariffs implemented over the issue were a barrier to U.S. wheat exports to the European Union. Under the dispute, the EU placed retaliatory tariffs […]
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