South Dakota

The Livestock Marketing Information Center worked with the American Sheep Industry Association (ASI) to provide baseline estimates regarding the on-farm/ranch costs of producing lambs. Best-estimate industry parameters were used to …

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), Liz Cheney (R-WY), and Frank Lucas (R-OK), introduced the Livestock Risk Management and Education Act, a bill that would provide grants to …

Watch this 2020 Long Range Forecast by Brian Bledsoe, Meteorologist for Weather5280 and KKTV in Colorado Springs. Some of his key projections include: He looks for only a neutral to …

The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking comments on ten pesticide applications to expand their use on hemp. The requests are the result of the December 2018 Farm Bill provisions that …

Opinion editorial by South Dakota Representative Dusty Johnson. Both in South Dakota and in Washington, I repeatedly hear the same thing – support free trade but hold bad actors accountable. …

Plant bugs are now becoming active in alfalfa fields across the state. A common question we receive from producers is why some of these bugs looks so different from others. …

U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today urged United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Perdue to provide short-term economic relief …

The South Dakota Stockgrowers are growing increasingly frustrated at the direction the USDA is taking animal traceability.   Rapid City, SD (SDSGA)- After James Halverson, Executive Director for The South …

Sen. John Thune (S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, this week wrote to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to encourage him to prioritize several provisions …