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Categories:National Farmers Union College Conference on Cooperatives Introduces Students to Purpose & Diversity of Co-ops
March 3, 2016 – By #South Dakota Farmer Union When Lake Area Technical Institute Agriculture Business student, Alexa Olson, thinks about cooperatives, she immediately pictures the grain elevator in her hometown. Until recently. Today, the image in her mind is much more diverse. Olson just returned from the National Farmers Union College Conference on Cooperatives held Feb.19-21, 2016, […]
Read MoreRural Lobbyist: South Dakota Solidifies COOL Support with Passage of HCR 1016
March 2, 2016 – By #South Dakota Farmer Union With a vote of 20-15, the Senate has passed HCR 1016 in support of the rancher approved and consumer friendly country of origin labeling law. The legislation has now successfully passed both bodies and in doing so, sends a clear message to our national delegations. With the WTO […]
Read MoreS.D. Farmers Union Celebrates the Wienk Charolais Farm Family
South Dakota Farmers Union has served South Dakota farm and ranch families for more than a century. Throughout the year, we share their stories in order to highlight the families who make up our state’s number one industry and help feed the world. This month, we’re highlighting the Wienk and Eschenbaum farm family who operate […]
Read MoreCALL TO ACTION: Senate State Affairs to Take Up HB 1140 on Monday.
February 26, 2016 – By #South Dakota Farmer Union Attention Farmers Union Members: House Bill 1140 will be heard in Senate State Affairs on Monday, February 29th. This bill threatens local control by attempting to streamline the planning and zoning process for conditional use permits. We encourage all members interested in protecting local control and landowner rights to […]
Read MoreRural Lobbyist: CALL TO ACTION! House Ag and Natural Resources Committee to Debate COOL Legislation.
February 19, 2016 – By #South Dakota Farmer Union Recently family ranchers and consumers were dealt a blow with the World Trade Organization verdict on Country of Origin Labeling. Congress soon after passed a full COOL repeal and the popular meat labeling law was gone. Consumers and ranchers in South Dakota will once again have benefit from such […]
Read MoreRural Lobbyist: Actual Use Put On Hold As SB 4 Is Tabled.
February 19, 2016 – By #South Dakota Farmer Union The Senate Ag and Natural Resources Committee was set to hear testimony on Senate Bill 4, a bill to redefine certain ag land as non-cropland. For many, this legislation is known as actual use taxation. Currently there is a debate in the agricultural community about which form of taxation […]
Read MoreRural Lobbyist: Updated: House Votes Down HB 1182 By One Vote.
HB 1182 was finally heard on the House floor Thursday. After two successful attempts to delay the legislation, using rule JR 5-17, House members have made their vote. With a crowded gallery, House members voted down HB 1182 by one vote. Needing a 2/3 majority to pass, the bill failed by a vote of 46 […]
Read MoreRural Lobbyist: Agriculture and Conservation Both Win With SB 136.
February 12, 2016 – By #South Dakota Farmer Union Not all news was bad news on Thursday as farmers found an ally in conservation with Senator Jim Peterson’s Senate Bill 136. If passed, SB 136 would provide an incentive to producers to plant perennial vegetation buffers within 50 ft. of lakes, ponds, and streams. The incentive would come […]
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