South Dakota Farmers Union members at their recent convention held virtually earlier this month approved several special orders of business. President Doug Sombke says their members came out overwhelmingly opposing the idea by the Governor to merge the State Departments of Agriculture and Environment and Natural Resources.
He says they’ll be pushing state lawmakers to vote against merging of those departments.
Sombke says their most heavily debated resolution led to their group supporting the call for a national beef checkoff referendum.
The 100 members attending their virtual convention also approved six other special orders of business they’ll work on for policy for 2021.
