Agriculture

Great news for U.S. corn producers as Japan now will allow the use of our ethanol.

A Mount Vernon, South Dakota man accused of stealing $400,000 worth of grain from a farm family, has been sentenced to five years in prison and pay restitution.

President Donald Trump had quite a week. From the FBI searching his personal lawyer's office, to pardoning Scooter Libby, to the first early details of the James Comey book, to finishing up the week with launching a round of missiles into Syria, it's fair to say that, even for Trump, it wa…

Farmers are doing a lot more and leaving a lot less today.

The Davison County Commission has rejected a wind project between Mitchell and Mount Vernon for the second time in three years.

Where did we think this tariff thing was going to go? The daily escalation of threats and saber rattling between the Trump Administration and China started with steel and aluminum and has -- predictably -- landed in the lap of South Dakota farmers.

United States and China trade tensions are shaking markets and showing the importance of trade policy to pocketbooks in rural America.

Sioux Falls-based ethanol and bio-refined product manufacturer earned $4 billion in 2017

It's getting closer.
Before you know it, there it is! Those South Dakota fields filled with growing corn and soybeans.
And in 2018, you'll be driving past just about the same amount of corn as you did last year, but you might have to look a little harder for the soybeans...

Yes I grew up on a small farm. And no, I haven't lived on a farm in a long, long time. So to put it mildly, I haven't exactly kept up with what's new in agriculture. But I assume life and work on the farm is pretty much like life and work everywhere...