Volume CX, No. 6 Huron, SD SEPT/OCT 2025
A PUBLICATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA FARMERS UNION
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Celebrate Co-Op Month 2025
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2025 National Farmers Union D.C. Fly-In
Farming for the Future Scholarship
Leah Olerud
Meet the 2025 Farmers Union Enterprise Leadership Couple
Wally Miner
SERVING SOUTH DAKOTA’S FARM & RANCH FAMILIES SINCE 1915.
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2025 Farmers Union Day at the State Fair
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South Dakota Farmers Union Celebrates Hyde County Farm Family
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arm bankruptcies are up 95 percent across the nation. China isn’t buying U.S. soybeans due to the current Trade War, and there is still no Farm Bill. Family farmers and ranchers had a lot to discuss with policymakers when they traveled from South Dakota to D.C. for the 2025 National Farmers Union (NFU) annual Fly-In Sept. 8-10.
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Save the Date for 2025 The Nemec family farm in Hyde County. Nick and Mary Jo (center) are pictured here with sons-in-law, Dan Powell (left) and Derek McCloud (right), and grandchildren: Addie Powell, Kate McCloud and Corbin Powell.
State Convention December 10 & 11 Find more details at www.sdfu.org
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t 67, Nick Nemec says for as long as he can remember, he wanted to be a farmer. “When I was little, my aunt was getting married and she asked me to be the ring bearer. I refused the job because I was not going to be a ring bearer, I was going to be a farmer,” Nick shared. Growing up on his family’s Hyde County farm, Nick got plenty of practice farming. “Even today, I can go out to any of my dad’s fields and tell you where the bad rocks are and which fence posts I helped replace. I am intimately connected with my family’s land.”
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