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Ranchers Call For Farm Bill

A month after thousands of cattle perished in one of the worst blizzards ever recorded in South Dakota many ranchers continue the struggle to recover.    The carcasses of dead cattle are still being pulled from the pastures, for weeks muddy conditions have made some impossible to remove.

If you ask what if anything the government should be doing for ranchers you’ll often get a two word answer--"Farm Bill."  

On today’s Dakota Digest we begin a two part series featuring South Dakota Ag producers talking about the Farm Bill now mired in congressional gridlock.