Webster farmer, LATC instructor going to D.C. to speak on ag issues
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Farm and Food File: Three honest questions needing three honest answers
In yet another effort to explain the 2025 changes to the Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs), a mid-June headline in…
Farm and Food: Good luck eating that cotton sandwich
The June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) from USDA contains a paradox policymakers might want to note: Domestic…
Farm and Food File: How one Texas county grabbed almost $1 billion in farm subsidies in 10 years
You’d think that the three extra years Congress has taken to update the 2018 Farm Bill might mean it stumbled…
Farm and Food File: Bad choice by POTUS 47 adds to 47 years of bad choices
It may be a surprise that last year’s biggest ag story – tariffs – was swept off today’s front pages…
South Dakota education reps decry statewide, ‘bell-to-bell’ school cell phone ban
If South Dakota is to ever implement statewide cell phone restrictions in public schools, it won’t likely be this year….
Farm and Food File: When ‘crazy’ is the only answer
House Ag Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson must not be a superstitious man. If he were, he would not have introduced…
Farm and Food File: Farm Bill talk is Groundhog Day after Groundhog Day after…
Punxsutawney Phil, the shadow-obsessed groundhog, and Glenn “GT” Thompson, the chairman of the House Ag Committee, have something in common:…
Farm and Food File: E15 is vital to nation’s corn farmers
There’s no heresy in the law of supply and demand If growing corn is a religion among Midwestern farmers, its…
Faith, government collide at South Dakota Capitol over ‘Lord Most High’ resolution
PIERRE – Questions of faith, governance and personal conviction brought talks of God, spirituality and morality to South Dakota’s seat…
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