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Floods Give Opportunity to Learn About Flood Insurance

Floods Give Opportunity to Learn About Flood Insurance

Minnesota House Passes Bill to Combat Opioid Epidemic

Minnesota House Passes Bill to Combat Opioid Epidemic

Nebraska Cattle Industry Suffers Severe Losses with Storm and Flooding

The agriculture tally from the worst disaster in Nebraska’s history may go on for months to come. Nebraska’s cattle producers…

FSA Programs Available to Help Producers Hit By Flooding, Storms

The Nebraska Farm Service Agency has programs available to assist livestock producers negatively impacted by the recent storm and flooding.…

Flooding Compromises Grain Transportation

The record snowfall and flooding in the Midwest and Plains states is having a negative effect on the nation’s transportation…

Verdigre Stockyards Starts Hay Drive

The Verdigre Stockyards in Verdigre, Nebraska started a hay drive on Saturday to help livestock producers that lost hay or…

Illegal Chinese Pork Shipment Seized

National Pork Producers Council officials are pleased U.S. Customs and Border Inspections stopped an illegal Chinese pork shipment from reaching…

Legislature Ends with a Long Day

The main run of the 2019 South Dakota legislative session ended in the early morning hours last Wednesday by passing the budget and leaving to avoid the incoming blizzard.

SD Board of Regents President “Promises” Scholarship Plan Will be Back

A needs-based scholarship program called “Dakota’s Promise” was defeated in this year’s South Dakota legislature.

Corps of Engineers Slowing Release Drop from Gavins Point Dam

The level of Lewis & Clark Lake behind Gavins Point Dam is not dropping as fast as the Corps of Engineers had planned so they are adjusting.

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