South Dakota Farm Bureau delegates believe Noem’s lies

I have to tell you I was shocked that the organization in SD that is supposed to support agri-business in our state voted this way;

The South Dakota Farm Bureau is having their annual convention this weekend, and an industrial hemp resolution came up during the delegate session of the convention.

“Our delegates had a resolution sent in by a county to support and promote the production of industrial hemp, and our delegates voted that down,” South Dakota Farm Bureau President Scott VanderWal said. “So we’re not going to be supporting it, but we also at this time won’t oppose it outright.”

“Our delegates are not taking a stance right now,” South Dakota Farm Bureau Vice President Jeffery Gatzke said. “We have currently no policy in our policy book on industrial hemp, period. So we don’t have a stance on for raising and manufacturing industrial hemp or against it.”

He says delegates aren’t eager to move quickly.

“Can we have the financial backing to regulate it, is our state ready for it? I think that’s a lot of it,” Gatzke said. “Is this something that we want to jump into. I think our delegates are pretty cautious on this issue, and so I think that’s why they voted it down.”

It is up to the state to regulate this. Farmers, just like any other business person in the state takes on the responsibility of FOLLOWING federal and state regulations. If they think the risk of growing this product out weighs the costs, they have a simple choice. We are not giving them the choice. So what is the harm? All the Bureau had to say is they support a new cash crop in this state, and the farmers assume the responsibility of taking that on. Instead, they took the position of what comes out of the rear end of a chicken. You would think by now that guns in South Dakota would be banned due to all of the foot injuries.