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How hardship wavers create devastating ripple effect The EPA’s decision to grant hardship waivers to three Andeavor refineries, despite the corporation’s net profits of nearly $1.5 billion last year, took away the requirement that a percentage of all oil is blended with corn-based ethanol. Sombke explains that this decision does nothing to help already low […]
Read MoreLake Area Technical Institute Joins S.D. Farmers Union for College Conference on Cooperatives
Throughout the conference, students toured a number of cooperatives and heard from representatives and farmers from traditional and value-added agricultural cooperatives, housing and worker-owned co-ops, and consumer cooperatives. They also gained insight into cooperative development, as well as the challenges facing the industry from current cooperative leaders, farmers and members. “This conference allowed me to […]
Read MoreS.D. Farmers Union Supports Rural Energy for America Program with Letter of Support
The following is the REAP letter of support: March, 2018 Dear Chairman Conaway, Ranking Member Peterson, Chairman Roberts and Ranking Member Stabenow, We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to support inclusion of the Rural Energy for America (REAP) program with increased or, at the least, maintained mandatory funding in the next Farm Bill. REAP drives […]
Read MoreS.D. Farmers Union Welcomes Rocky Forman to Serve as Member Services Coordinator
More about Rocky Forman Forman grew up on a registered cattle ranch near Ree Heights. His dad was a ranch hand and along with helping him out with cattle chores, Forman began showing cattle at the young age of 8. He enjoyed preparing cattle for show, and soon, his friends were asking him to help […]
Read MoreS.D. Farmers Union Provides Professional Leadership Training Through REAL Program
“By finding ways to advance my professional knowledge I’m able to give back more to the leadership roles I hold in my community and I’ll be ahead of the game when it comes to my job,” says Hawkinson. The REAL program connects rural professionals with experts, participants work on media and promotion, parliamentary procedure, communication […]
Read MoreS.D. Farmers Union Foundation Supports Future of Agriculture with Scholarship
More about Mike Bredeson Bredeson’s interest in holistic agriculture took root during a summer internship with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Research Service lab in Brookings. “I learned that the field of agricultural research is a complex and multifaceted system. I also gained an intimate understanding of how farm management impacts natural resource quality, […]
Read MoreFarmers Union Celebrates the Feickert Farm Family of Aberdeen
By Lura Roti for SDFU The second oldest of seven, Dennis Feickert grew up on a traditional 1950s South Dakota farm. His dad, Elvin, and mom, Christina, raised pigs, chickens, a cow/calf herd, a 30-cow dairy herd and corn, oats, wheat and hay. It was on this 1,200-acre McPherson County farm that a strong desire […]
Read MoreBig Win for South Dakota Agriculture
South Dakota State University Precision Agriculture project has been funded. One of the big WINS for agriculture this year in the South Dakota Legislature. Renovations and remodeling for Berg Hall will have to be raised by SDSU but they have funding for the new building and authority for the whole project and can proceed. Thank […]
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