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Categories:AI’s Impact on Production Agriculture & Policy Discussed During 2025 Farmers Union Convention
By Lura Roti for South Dakota Farmers Union South Dakota family farmers, ranchers and nationally-renowned thought leaders will gather in Huron, Dec. 10 and 11, for the 110th South Dakota Farmers Union (SDFU) State Convention. During the two-day convention, members of the state’s largest agriculture organization will discuss and establish policy to guide the grassroots […]
Read MoreState’s Largest Farm Organization Teams Up with Grocery Store-Led Food Distribution Non-Profit
By Lura Roti for South Dakota Farmers Union Months before more than 74,000 South Dakotans caught up in Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) uncertainty due to the government shutdown, South Dakota Farmers Union contributed to Team Buche Cares, a non-profit focused on feeding the hungry in rural and tribal communities and led by RF Buche, […]
Read More2025 Life on Farms & Ranches Photo Contest Winners Announced
By Lura Roti for South Dakota Farmers Union When storm clouds gathered and the wind picked up, many headed to their basements in fear of the July derecho – not Breyten Johnson. Johnson dashed to the machine shed to watch and wait. The fifth-generation De Smet farmer wanted to capture photos of lightening. “I really […]
Read MoreSouth Dakota Rancher Shares Impact of National Guard Involvement
By Lura Roti Oren Lesmeister is a Parade Rancher, a husband to Tracy and a dad to Colten, Colby and Chelsy. He’s a small business owner, former South Dakota State Representative and a member of the South Dakota Beef Industry Board and South Dakota Farmers Union Board of Directors. In his early 20s Lesmeister enlisted […]
Read MoreCattle Producers Call for Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling in Response to Tariff Removal on Argentine Beef
By Lura Roti Raising cattle is tough work. And the cattle ranchers who have the grit to take on the task of feeding and protecting the U.S. beef supply through blizzards, drought and 3 a.m. calving emergencies will tell you although it can be grueling at times, the work is rewarding. “I like the journey […]
Read MoreYoung Livestock Producers Get a Start with Farmers Union Herd Builder Program
By Lura Roti Six South Dakota farm and ranch youth received the opportunity to expand their meat goat and cattle herds during the 2025 Western Jr. Livestock Show thanks to South Dakota Farmers Union’s Herd Builder program. “Helping young people interested in making their future in livestock production is among the many ways our organization […]
Read MoreFamily Farmers & Ranchers Donate 35,000 Pounds of Ham to Feeding South Dakota
By Lura Roti Feeding others is the life’s work of family farmers and ranchers. And caring for neighbors in need matters to the members of South Dakota’s largest agriculture organization. For these reasons South Dakota Farmers Union donated 35,000 pounds of pork on October 17 to Feeding South Dakota. “Farmers and ranchers and Feeding South […]
Read MoreGet to Know Brandon Teichroew, Yankton
By Lura Roti for South Dakota Farmers Union Brandon Teichroew sold a pickup to a longtime customer just two days before he left his 14-year career at Lewis and Clark Ford to join the Farmers Union Insurance Agency in Yankton. “The customer said, ‘sell me a truck and get ahold of me in a couple […]
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