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Wheat Growers names officers for 2012
ABERDEEN -- The Wheat Growers' board of directors has named its officers for 2012.
Feb 08, 2012 | 1:05 pm | (0) Comments
South Dakota dairy opponents score court victory
ALEXANDRIA -- A judge has ordered Hanson County officials to either cancel building permits issued to the developer of a controversial dairy or appear in court to explain why the permits have been extended.
Feb 03, 2012 | 2:33 pm | (3) Comments
Beef council asking producers to fill out surveys
PIERRE -- The South Dakota Beef Industry Council is asking ranchers and dairy farmers to fill out surveys on the $1 checkoff program.
Jan 30, 2012 | 11:33 am | (0) Comments
Rapid City USDA Service Center moves to new location
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Service Center will move to its new location near the now-under-construction south side Walmart on Wednesday, according to Elsie M. Meeks, state director for USDA Rural Development in South Dakota.
Jan 28, 2012 | 7:00 am | (4) Comments
Gates defends focus on high-tech agriculture
KIRKLAND, Wash. -- Bill Gates has a terse response to criticism that the high-tech solutions he advocates for world hunger are too expensive or bad for the environment: Countries can embrace modern seed technology and genetic modification or their citizens will starve.
Jan 27, 2012 | 3:04 pm | (0) Comments
Large grain elevator soon to open in South Dakota
TULARE -- A new Archer Daniels Midland grain elevator is opening in the spring in the northeastern South Dakota town of Tulare.
Jan 26, 2012 | 9:32 am | (0) Comments
South Dakota's milk production up 1 percent
SIOUX FALLS -- South Dakota's milk production rose 1 percent for the most recent quarter from a fewer number of cows.
Jan 23, 2012 | 7:05 pm | (0) Comments
South Dakota corn production up 15 percent
SIOUX FALLS -- South Dakota corn production reached 653 million bushels in 2011, an increase of 15 percent from 2010.
Jan 23, 2012 | 5:25 pm | (0) Comments
South Dakota cattle on feed up unchanged from a year ago
SIOUX FALLS -- South Dakota feedlots with capacities of 1,000 or more head had 260,000 cattle on feed for the slaughter market as of Jan. 1.
Jan 23, 2012 | 7:28 am | (0) Comments
South Dakota legislative panel endorses ag property tax bill
PIERRE -- South Dakota lawmakers have given first-round approval to a measure that would speed up increases in the taxable value of some farm land and could raise actual tax bills in some cases.
Jan 19, 2012 | 12:32 pm | (7) Comments
South Dakota surpasses North Dakota as top sunflower-producing state
BISMARCK, N.D. -- South Dakota farmers can boast for the first time in recorded history that they are the nation's top sunflower growers, although producers understand those bragging rights aren't likely to last.
Jan 19, 2012 | 9:34 am | (0) Comments
Dakotas getting small chunk of USDA disaster funds
BISMARCK, N.D. -- The Dakotas are getting small a chunk of about $308 million in disaster assistance being provided to 33 states and Puerto Rico from U.S. Department of Agriculture emergency funds.
Jan 18, 2012 | 8:27 am | (1) Comments
Winter wheat seedings down in SD, up in ND
SIOUX FALLS -- Winter wheat seedings this season dropped in South Dakota but rose in North Dakota.
Jan 12, 2012 | 3:57 pm | (0) Comments
State corn production up in 2011, soybean crop down
SIOUX FALLS -- South Dakota farmers produced more corn but fewer soybeans last year compared to 2010.
Jan 12, 2012 | 1:27 pm | (0) Comments
National Sunflower Association has new leader
BISMARCK, N.D. -- The National Sunflower Association is starting the new year with a new leader.
Jan 11, 2012 | 12:31 pm | (0) Comments
Dakotas elevator co-op getting new headquarters
ABERDEEN -- Construction on the North Central Farmers Elevator's $2 million corporate office building in the northeast South Dakota town of Ipswich is on schedule and should be completed by early March.
Jan 10, 2012 | 11:32 am | (0) Comments
Sunflower conference set in North Dakota
FARGO, N.D. -- The 2012 National Sunflower Association Research Forum is set in North Dakota this week.
Jan 09, 2012 | 10:36 am | (0) Comments
Lack of snow not good for winter wheat, alfalfa
SIOUX FALLS -- The lack of snow in South Dakota is causing concerns for winter wheat and alfalfa farmers, but the mild temperatures so far this winter have been good for livestock.
Jan 04, 2012 | 9:32 am | (1) Comments
Farming practices threaten widely grown corn crop
One of the nation's most widely planted crops - a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide - may be losing its ability to kill a major pest, and scientists fear potentially risky farming practices are spurring the rise of insects immune to the hybrid's sophisticate…
Dec 28, 2011 | 5:03 pm | (2) Comments
More young people see opportunity in farming
MILWAUKEE -- A Wisconsin factory worker worried about layoffs became a dairy farmer. An employee at a Minnesota nonprofit found an escape from her cubicle by buying a vegetable farm. A nuclear engineer tired of office bureaucracy decided to get into cattle ranching in Texas.
Dec 21, 2011 | 6:02 pm | (0) Comments
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