Opinion

The Gregory Co. FSA Office would like to remind producers of the upcoming deadline of November 15, 2021, to timely certify your acres of fall-seeded crops, such as winter wheat, rye, and triticale.

After hearing the news that a federal judge in Minnesota ordered a class-action lawsuit against JBS, Tyson, National Beef, and Cargill to proceed, South Dakota Farmers Union President, Doug Sombke said after decades, finally a judge, “gets it.”

Fredrick Billy Ongeche, 46, Heath, TX, speeding on a state highway, fine $39.00, court costs, 50.00; surcharges $28.50. Daniel Eugene Haws, 27, Williston, ND, speeding on a state highway, fine $59.00, court costs $50.00, surcharges $28.50.

I’ve spent a lot of time lately talking about South Dakota being ranked one of the hardest working states in the nation. And we continue to be the number one state for economic recovery — Moody’s Analytics has our economy operating at 105% on its “Back to Normal Index”. Despite all these positive economic indicators, businesses here are still struggling with a common challenge: workforce shortages.

Sometime in the early 1880’s, a small band of rustlers who stole both cattle and horses west of the Missouri River, organized into what would be by 1900 a large and innovative gang of thieves. They were able to steal thousands of livestock in a year from their neighbors in south central South Dakota.

Funeral services set for Merlin Brumbaugh Funeral services for Merlin Brumbaugh, age 75, of Newport, NE, will be held on Saturday, October 16, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. at Kotrba-Smith Funeral Home, Gregory, SD.

MARRIAGES Grady Chance Fortuna, 26, to Sydney Rae Benter, 26, on September 29, 2021, in Burke, SD. DEATHS Randy James Nelson, 59 years, March 4, 2020, Mitchell, SD.

Black Hills Pioneer October 1, 2021 The federal government wants to know how much money flows in and out of your bank account annually. Federal officials say the prospective reporting requirements are being considered as a revenue offset for Congress’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, as the Treasury estimates the system will generate $460 billion over a decade.

Edward L. Senn, editor of the Pioneer, a weekly newspaper published in Iona since early 1901 had been denouncing the cattle rustlers and demanding that they be brought to justice. Because of his strong and persistent pleas for law and order, he had made himself so obnoxious to the thieves that they decided to show their hatred for him.

I am back from the also dry North. However, conditions at my home location were better than expected because of early August rains. Or as a friend put it, one end of the field was often different from the other. A lot of crop was baled because cattle feed is so scarce and valuable.