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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Roger Marshall (R-KS) led 19 colleagues in a letter to White House […]
WASHINGTON — The record profits for meatpackers in the past two years were the result of market conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, along with increased consumer demand, according to leaders […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Â The questions have been pointed and some answers heated during a two-day hearing of both the Senate and House Agriculture Committees regarding market transparency in beef and […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) have released an updated version of their legislation, the Cattle Price Discovery and […]
PIERRE, SD – Two seemingly harmless words added to a state open meetings law in 2019 have sparked a debate over the rights of citizens to publicly comment at official […]
PIERRE, SD – A legislative panel has been discussing the possibility of impeachment proceedings against South Dakota’s attorney general. A statewide government observer says the meetings themselves reveal transparency problems […]
South Dakota Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) recently introduced the Cattle Contract Library Act of 2021 (H.R.5609) requiring beef packers to provide details and types of forward contracts offered when purchasing fed […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan effort to introduce legislation that would create  a library for cattle contracts within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agriculture Marketing Service Department was announced […]
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Â announced that beginning Monday, August 9, 2021, it will issue two new USDA Market News reports based on Livestock Mandatory Reporting […]
BISMARCK, N.D. – Efforts to set up processes to redraw legislative boundaries are slowly moving ahead in state legislatures. In states like South Dakota, where the legislative session has ended, […]
George Leach, age 85 of Belle Fourche, died Monday, September 2, 2024 at the Monument Health Rapid City […]