USFRA: Telling Ag’s Story
Telling the story of agriculture today should be one about innovation and pride. Instead, certain media and anti-ag organizations are telling a different ...
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General Greed
General Mills has a problem with ethanol. In a recent Financial Times interview, their Chief Officer, Ken Powell claims America has a bad ethanol policy ...
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Alverson elected to National Corn Board
(July 13, 2011) – Keith Alverson, a sixth-generation farmer from Chester, has been elected to serve on the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) ...
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Bipartisan Biofuel Compromise Reached
An ethanol deal has been reached between a bipartisan group of United States Senators in which they have agreed to end the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax ...
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Change to prevented-planting program helps flooded farmers
A modification to a federal crop insurance program comes as a welcome relief to South Dakota farmers whose livelihoods are being jeopardized by several ...
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Thune steps up for SD on PP
On Thursday, June 30, 2011, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency revised its prevented planting policy for farmers in ...
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Knee high by the 4th of July?
Knee high by the 4th of July…or so the old saying goes. The old “knee high” adage meant that if your corn reached the height of your knee by Independence ...
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Approved E15 label creates concerns, cheers
The Environmental Protection Agency approved a fuel pump label today for the blend E15 (15% ethanol and 85% gasoline), that the agency had declared safe ...
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73 teams compete in 20th annual Corn Cob Open
Nearly 300 golfers competed June 23 in the 20th annual Corn Cob Open tournament hosted by the South Dakota Corn Growers Association (SDCGA) at Spring ...
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