Issue Position: Defending South Dakota Agriculture

Issue Position

Most South Dakota families know where their food comes from -- largely one of the thousands of farms and ranches dotting our great state. Agriculture is South Dakota's number one industry.

But you wouldn't know that when our only member of Congress, Kristi Noem, left South Dakota ranchers and farmers and all those who depend on them out in the cold. When Kristi Noem sided with her Washington, D. C. political friends against South Dakotans by refusing to reauthorize the Farm Bill in 2012, thousands of farmers were left in the dark. Prices sky-rocketed, and as usual South Dakotan families paid the price for Washington politicians putting politics before people. Once again South Dakota families paid for Kristi Noem's partisan gridlock while her family has received 3.4 million dollars over the past few years from federal subsidies.

As our next member of Congress, I'll never forget South Dakota helps feed our great nation. I'm incredibly proud to come from a state of farmers and ranchers. It's time to put South Dakota first again.

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