Farm and Food File: Just saying so doesn’t make it so
Too many officials in the Trump Administration and several farm state Capitol Hill leaders believe that just saying something is…
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Farm and Food File: Congress has much to do, and it won’t do much
I’m old enough to remember when Congress – like most Americans – worked during the summer. Sure, the pinstriped, air-conditioned…
Senate farm bill draft focuses on farm economy, keeps ‘Big Beautiful’ SNAP cuts
Nearly two months after the U.S. House passed a farm bill proposal, the Senate Agriculture Committee has released an initial…
Screwworms eat flesh, and screw-ups cost money
Poor Joe Biden. Out of office for 17 months and he’s still the reason for every Trump administration failure, large…
USDA cuts programs to aid new and Native American farmers
In his dual roles as a cattle rancher and chairman of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Boyd Gourneau was hopeful…
Farm and Food File: Worse and more of it
On the farm of my youth, our full-time field worker, Jackie, didn’t say much. When he did, however, he often…
Kampeska water board calls drainage project a ‘travesty’ for the lake, city disagrees
Brad Johnson, a board member and past president of the Lake Kampeska Water Project District board, called the recently started…
Farm & Food File: Planting ramps up, prices hang on, and USDA data gets hammered
Central Dublin’s busy O’Connell Street became a parking lot a week ago when Irish farmers and truck drivers parked their…
Farm and Food File: The ages-old dilemma – guns or butter
In its program-slashing, 2027 Department of Agriculture budget plan, the White House hoped to head off sure-to-come complaints by tying…
Watertown shares $150.7M in infrastructure funding with nearly three dozen communites
Communities across South Dakota, including Watertown, are getting some help from the state Capitol to pay for high-dollar infrastructure projects…
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