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Iowa Land Sale Sets Record

A record has been set for the price of land per acre in Iowa.  On Monday, a tract of 55…

Farm Bureau and National Pork Producers Present Case At U-S Supreme Court

American Farm Bureau and the National Pork Producers Council challenged California’s Proposition 12 in the Supreme Court Tuesday.  The case…

Northeast Nebraska Harvest Affected by Drought

Nearly a third of the Nebraska corn harvest is completed and the soybean harvest is more than half done with…

Grassley Comments on Supreme Court Case Involving California Proposition 12

The U-S Supreme Court is now hearing testimony on the lawsuit brought by the National Pork Producers’ Council and the…

Harvest Progress

Good weather has aided farmers with this year’s harvest.  The nation’s corn harvest in the 18 top corn growing states…

SD PUC Closes Broadband Docket

The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission decided to close the docket on LTD Broadband, a Minnesota company that had been…

Wakonda Man Indicted on Federal Drug Charges

US Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Wakonda, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury…

Listening Through the Campaign

With election day closing in, candidates are making the dash to the deadline. District 18 Representative Ryan Cwach of Yankton…

Yankton School Board Buys Land for Early Childhood Development Center

The Yankton School Board approved spending six hundred thousand dollars to buy twelve acres of land for the new, early…

Freeman Public School Shows More Enrollment Growth

A standout among rural school districts, Freeman Public is showing another year of enrollment growth. Superintendent Jake Tietge says it…

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