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In 2019, farms and ranches enrolled in the South Dakota Center for Farm/Ranch Management program experienced a decrease in net farm income from 2018, according to data compiled for analysis. The median net farm income in 2019 was $40,415 compared to $53,888 in 2018. This information is based on averages and there are certainly farms and ranches with higher and lower returns. The data is compiled through a statewide educational program that assists producers with their recordkeeping and management offered through Mitchell Technical Institute.
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Lee Qualm a Platte, SD resident and 4th generation farmer has announced his bid for District 21 Senate. Lee was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2013. Lee was the Chairman of Ag and Natural Resources Committee, he served on the Transportation Committee, Local Government Committee and on the State and Tribal Relations Committee. Since the fall of 2016 Qualm serves as House Majority Leader, is Chairman of State Affairs Committee and serves on the Executive Board, on the REDI Board, and Ag Land Task Force. Qualm notes, “I love working with people to help this District and to make sure SD remains a great place to live, work and raise our families.”
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Right now the news on most every TV channel is depressing – rising death count, not enough hospital beds, not enough ventilators. We need a good news story – something about good people making the extra effort. Just such a story boosted my overall morale this morning.
Read more11CHRONICLES 7:14 "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."(KJV)
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Did the recent legislative session do anything that will affect our hunting or fishing? Senate Bill 25 is going to make hunting and/ or fishing a bit more expensive in the future.
Read morePHILIPPIANS 3-13-21 "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect (mature) be thus minded: and if any thing be ye otherwise minded: God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, where we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. Brethren, be followers together of me (Paul is saying) and mark them which walk so as ye have us for example (and be careful of those who do not follow the Word of God) (For many walk, of whom I (Paul) have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) For our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself."(KJV)
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