Opinion

Harland Clark of Gregory was apprehended by the Gregory County Sheriff’s Department on April 26 after having been identified on a trail cam put up because of suspicious activity resulting in the vandalization theft of items from several vehicles in St. Charles.

Feeding South Dakota truck needs volunteers The Feeding South Dakota truck will be in Gregory on Friday, July 23, 2021 from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

MAGISTRATE COURT Braiden K. McCahren, 25, Vermillion, SD, speeding on state highway, fine $39.00, court costs $50.00, surcharges $28.50.

Governor Kristi Noem recently announced that South Dakota closed the 2021 budget year on June 30 with a surplus of $85.9 million. Total general fund revenue for fiscal year 2021 finished $62.0 million higher than adopted estimates, and the state general fund budget ended with expenditures approximately $23.9 million lower than budgeted.

The Missouri River was always commercially the most important waterway in the area. Steamers never ventured on any other South Dakota river. Each of the other larger steams floated the canoes and row boats of the earliest explorers and trappers.

America’s meat supply is a matter of national security. If we don’t control our own food supply, then we don’t control our own destiny. South Dakota feeds the world, and we do it better than anybody else. We have more head of cattle per-person than any other state. But anticompetitive practices in the meatpacking industry are threatening that way of life. We need more competition, more transparency, and more options for our cattle producers to market their livestock.

With the completion of the Fort Randall Dam in 1956, many sites and features of deep historical interest disappeared as the bottomlands were flooded. This included twenty-five historic islands which were identified by Merrill Mattes in his “Report on Historic Sites in the Fort Randall Reservoir Area, Missouri River, South Dakota.”

I am back and want to share my observations on the events of the last 2 months. This was the longest time that I have ever been away from my Canadian home so I had 7 months of farm papers to catch up on. The John Deere Furrow confirmed a couple of things, Sask. has 40% of Canada’s cropland and climate change causing longer frost free periods, is allowing grain farming north of Lake Superior. This is also happening in Alaska. Climate change is also unpredictability, when I got up there it was 84 F and very dry. Two days later we had freezing rain and snow and in a week 4” of rain. On the first day of summer it froze at a number of locations across the province. There have been two separate occasions of 65+ mph winds with much damage around my home area. But water holds heat better than air and shifts in ocean currents have been observed which could have very serious effects on weather patterns.

Governor Kristi Noem signed an executive order on Tuesday, June 29, declaring a statewide state of emergency for drought conditions and allowing ditch mowing in eastern South Dakota to begin effective immediately. As drought conditions continue to negatively impact feed availability for livestock across South Dakota, this order will increase access to hay for farmers and ranchers.

Memorial services to be held for Ruby Graham Memorial services for Ruby Graham, age 77, formerly of Springview, NE, will be held on Saturday, July 10, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. at the United Methodist Church, Springview, NE.