Agriculture

The Fence Line Fairness Act would create a committee of appointed producers to mediate disputes between the United States Forest Service and landowners.

The USDA is expanding efforts to track bird flu in dairy cattle by testing milk. The virus has already been confirmed in several South Dakota dairy herds.

Bovine tuberculosis has been confirmed in South Dakota for the first time since 2021.

Governor Kristi Noem will address several competing factors in her annual state budget address. The address could be her last. Noem must outline how she will fund state government while balancing one high priced ticket item when revenues are coming in lower than projected. There's also growing pressure for property tax relief.

Two South Dakota agriculture organizations are watching potential upcoming tariffs closely. President-elect Donald Trump is vowing tariffs on goods imported into the country. Both groups remember Trump’s trade war during his first administration.

According to the latest USDA report, South Dakota’s crop harvest is progressing at a solid pace. That’s despite drought-like conditions that persisted for some farmers.

State officials are confirming a case of anthrax in a group of cattle sold in a South Dakota market.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service is conducting surveying in South Dakota this fall.

The USDA said South Dakota farmers planted more than 3,000 acres of industrial hemp in 2023 – more than any other state.

The Newell Ram Sale and Show allows sheep herdsmen and women to access global genetics so they can better participate in what has become a global sheep economy. SDPB stopped by in 2019 to learn more.