State proposes new rules for raw milk sales

Steve Miller Journal staff

A proposal to require small dairies that sell raw milk to comply with the same rules applying to large dairies is unfair and will put small raw milk distributors out of business, a Custer area farmer says.

Nov 14, 2009 | 11:30 pm | (6) Comments

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Wet harvest drying up propane supply

The Associated Press

YANKTON -- With the wet grain being harvested in South Dakota this year comes another problem: a spike in the demand for propane to dry it.

Nov 14, 2009 | 10:45 am | (2) Comments

Funds available to improve energy efficiency

By Journal staff

Federal loan guarantees and grants are available to agricultural producers and rural small businesses to install renewable energy

Nov 13, 2009 | 7:00 am | (0) Comments

Beef industry workshop scheduled in Brookings

By Journal staff

BEEF 2020, an educational workshop for producers and those in the beef industry, will be Jan. 5-7 in Brookings.

Nov 12, 2009 | 6:55 pm | (0) Comments

Longtime ag leader Dick Taylor dies

Steve Miller Journal staff

Dick Taylor, a longtime key figure in the area livestock industry, 4-H programs, the Central States Fair and the Western Junior Livestock Show, died Thursday at his home. He was 88.

Nov 12, 2009 | 4:30 pm | (0) Comments

Thune: Black Hills plant that converts wood chips part of federal program

The Associated Press

Sen. John Thune says Western Biomass Energy, which converts wood chips from the Black Hills into renewable fuels, has been selected to take part in the Biomass Crop Assistance Program.

Nov 11, 2009 | 12:55 pm | (6) Comments

Officials, cattlemen back at the table for Lawrence County feedlot talks

Tim Velder Lawrence County Journal

It has been a year since a controversial cattle feedlot expansion project erupted on the Lawrence County landscape and the process of healing from the controversy is still in the early stages.

Nov 11, 2009 | 11:30 am | (3) Comments

Deadline approaching for cattle entries for 2010 stock show

Journal staff

The deadline is approaching for cattle entries to the 2010 Black Hills Stock show. Applications must be in to the stock show office by Sunday, Nov. 15.

Nov 09, 2009 | 9:00 pm | (0) Comments

Rain makes big crop difficult to harvest

Peter Harriman Argus Leader

SIOUX FALLS -- Record and near-record corn and soybean crops sit in area fields tantalizing farmers, but there is one problem: In many places, it's been too wet to get at them.

Nov 08, 2009 | 1:00 pm | (0) Comments

Dairy farmers try to 'ride out storm'

Austin Kaus The Daily Republic

MENNO -- Roger Guthmiller has spent his whole life working with dairy cattle.

Nov 07, 2009 | 10:45 am | (0) Comments

USDA says it wants to resolve Native American farmer claim

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration intends to seek resolution to a lawsuit filed by Native American farmers who alleged discrimination in the granting of federal agricultural loans over three decades.

Nov 06, 2009 | 4:35 pm | (0) Comments

State's dairy production is fastest growing in nation

Journal staff

South Dakota's dairy production had the highest rate of growth in the nation during the third quarter, according to a news release from South Dakota State University.

Nov 06, 2009 | 2:55 pm | (1) Comments

Oacoma cattleman to lead South Dakota Beef Industry Council

By Journal staff

Merrill Karlen of Oacoma was elected president of the South Dakota Beef Industry Council at the organization's recent annual meeting in Brookings.

Nov 05, 2009 | 11:55 am | (0) Comments

3 million acres taken out of CRP

The Associated Press

TRIBUNE, Kan. - Surveying undulating grasslands that disappear into the western Kansas horizon, retired farmer Joe Govert pointed out parcel after parcel no longer enrolled in a federal program that pays property owners not to farm environmentally sensitive land.

Nov 04, 2009 | 8:00 am | (0) Comments

Grazingland Sustainability Initiative deadline extended to Nov. 20

By Journal staff

The deadline for the federal Grazingland Sustainability Initiative has been extended until Nov. 20.

Oct 29, 2009 | 11:15 pm | (0) Comments

80 percent of winter wheat emerges

By Journal staff

Ninety-three percent of the 2010 winter wheat crop has been seeded, and 80 percent of it has emerged, both figures similar to the pace for last year but behind the five-year average,

Oct 29, 2009 | 11:15 pm | (0) Comments

AGRIBRIEFS for Oct. 23, 2009

By Journal staff

State's feedlot numbers up

Oct 23, 2009 | 7:00 am | (0) Comments

Wyo. grassland prairie dog plan allows poisoning

The Associated Press

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Ranchers and environmentalists are at odds over a soon-to-be-final plan for managing prairie dogs on the Thunder Basin National Grassland in northeast Wyoming.

Oct 20, 2009 | 4:30 pm | (1) Comments

Business training for ranch, farm women set

Journal staff

A series of educational programs for women who ranch and farm is set to start Tuesday, Oct. 20, in Brookings.

Oct 15, 2009 | 11:05 pm | (0) Comments