The number of farms and ranches in the state, at 28,300, was unchanged from 2023. Numbers of farms and ranches in South ...

South Dakota Senator and U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune last week introduced the American Beef Labeling Act, which ...

A new law in South Dakota requires lab-grown protein to be labeled. Governor Larry Rhoden has signed House Bill 1022, which ...

Can Robert R. Kennedy Jr. make American healthy again? South Dakota's U.S. Sens. John Thune and Mike Rounds believe so. RFK ...

House Bill 1258, proposed by Rep. Nichole Uhre-Balk of Rapid City, would have placed lithium mining under the same regulations as gold and silver rather than its current sand and ...

State Press Secretary This week, U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), a member of the Senate Agriculture committee, and Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) reintroduced their ...

A set of OSEU standards are already in place across the state but the standards aren’t required and OSEU classes are an ...

South Dakota is behind the curve in terms of moisture for the year, a problem that has carried over from last year. Laura ...

Aberdeen Sen. Perry introduces bill to allow municipalities controlling a public water supply to determine the amount of ...

South Dakota legislators have advanced a bill that would make water fluoridation optional in municipalities, the South Dakota Searchlight reported Feb. 7. Five notes: 1. The South Dakota Department of ...

A deal may have been reached at the South Dakota Capitol on changing state licensing fees for large producers of livestock.

As the Trump administration's plans for tariffs on the U.S.'s top three trading partners evolved last week, ag groups throughout the country were working to respond and plan for the future.