South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was a guest on WNAX this morning and outlined her plan to merge the State Department of Agriculture with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. She says farmers and ranchers will garner several benefits from having these two departments combined.
She says it’ll save taxpayers money by merging Ag with DENR.
Noem says she was shocked to hear some producers groups are worried about Agriculture losing its voice by merging with DENR.
Noem says she’s a lifelong farmer and rancher and her Lieutenant Governor is also a rancher and they have the best interests of agriculture in mind with this proposal. She adds that because there’s so few legislators who are farmers and ranchers she’s counting on producers to weigh in with them asking them to approve this merger.
