South Dakota Senate to decide on Gov. Kristi Noem s department merger plan
The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources committee passed a Senate Resolution of Disapproval aimed at stopping Gov. Kristi Noem s plans to merge the state’s Department of Agriculture with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Now the full Senate will take up the issue. 12:32 pm, Mar. 5, 2021 ×
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks in a conference room of the statehouse in Pierre, S.D., on Thursday, Feb. 25. (Christopher Vondracek / Forum News Service)
PIERRE, S.D. The South Dakota Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee narrowly passed a Senate Resolution of Disapproval aimed at stopping Gov. Kristi Noem’s plan to merge the state’s Department of Agriculture with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
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JAMESTOWN, N.D. (PNS) – Farmers say timing is everything for successful production.
But North Dakota producers say it’s not just changing weather patterns they’re contending with. Declining infrastructure is another barrier, and they hope lawmakers come through with key funding.
So far this session, bonding proposals of different sizes have been floated as the Legislature looks to pay for a number of infrastructure projects. But price tags for these plans have come down, and money for county and township-level improvements has been removed.
Matt Perdue, of the North Dakota Farmers Union, says rural communities need those funds with roads deteriorating around them.
HOEVEN & BALDWIN INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION TO ALLEVIATE FEED SHORTAGES
Devils Lake Journal
WASHINGTON – Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) have introduced the Feed Emergency Enhancement During Disasters with Cover Crops (FEEDD) Act, bipartisan legislation to provide farmers and ranchers additional flexibility to alleviate feed shortages in years with widespread excessive moisture, flooding or drought. Specifically, the bill would:
Create an emergency waiver authority for the Secretary of Agriculture to allow for haying, grazing or chopping of a cover crop on prevented plant acres before November 1 in the event of a feed shortage due to excessive moisture, flood or drought.