Planting Seeds for South Dakota’s Future
By Rep. Dusty Johnson
August 21, 2026
BIG Update
Dakotafest celebrates the best of South Dakota agriculture. Every year, this event brings people together to learn about the techniques and technology that our producers use, and yes, the delicious food our producers work so hard to provide. It’s especially encouraging to see the next generation of South Dakota agriculture inspired by the equipment and conversations at Dakotafest.
I joined in on the fun to provide an update from Congress, including the status of the Farm Bill, the path toward year-round E15, and the producer-first policies we’ve already put into law. It’s important to hear directly from those working in the fields about the challenges they face and how policymakers can support their work. I also saw firsthand some of the technologies that are supporting producers today.
Johnson speaks with producers at Dakotafest in Mitchell
BIG Idea
Rural economic growth is powered by innovators, entrepreneurs, and builders. I joined the NorthWestern Energy Summit in Sioux Falls to discuss the importance of our shared commitment to growing South Dakota’s economy and investing in its future. The United States must continue to do big things, and South Dakota can play a leading role in our nation’s future. By encouraging investment and opportunity, we can strengthen South Dakota’s rural communities.
Johnson speaks at the NorthWestern Energy Summit in Sioux Falls
BIG News
The Rural Health Transformation Program, established through the Working Families Tax Cuts, set aside $50 billion to strengthen rural health care across America. This week, the administration announced South Dakota will receive $90 million to modernize health care technology, expand access to care, support tribal health options, and strengthen the rural health care workforce. I supported this program in Congress, and I’m glad to see these investments reach South Dakota’s rural communities to ensure families can access quality care. This investment will have a significant impact on the future of health care in our state.
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Are you working on that $40 trillion debt there Dusty? That’s $3 billion a day in interest we’re paying.
So Dusty is responsible for 40$ trillion?
We know you hate him, move along. It’s ruining your mental health.
Yes, he vote on legislation. If you haven’t figured that out. Work on your own mental health and not be a trumper.
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Will be so glad when someone else is sworn in as SD congressional.
You have a lot of hate in your heart to kick a man while he’s down.
grudznick is curious if the less aggressive affliction of DDS persists as much as the NDS that still pervades many minds. You all get ready for Ms. Noem popping up at more and more events, just to sink another dose of the NDS into those fellows.
Hey stump jumpers How you like your most popular, smartest ever, prez trump now ? Removing tariffs on ground beef further killing the live stock industry in this country. His only selfish reasoning is to influence the mid-term elections in the US and save his butt Where are Thune, Rounds or Johnson in condemning hi move??? You kool-aid drinkers will continue to vote for MAGA/ Republican candidates. Y’all are pathetic. Time to see the light
They can’t and won’t. Doing so would require them to admit that they weee wrong, and also require them to question their Dear Leader.
You sound like a angry transgender! Must be a sad life being a liberal living in South Dakota. Know your opinion and vote means nothing.
I’d wager they’re doing better than you, who only lives with 47s seed dribbling from your chin.
While Chuck Schumer’s fills your rectum.
And you like it!
Like mine dribbling from your wife’s chin.
Demo, you are wrong. Dusty and Mike DID criticize Trump’s move.
“I encourage patience as we await final details to be released, and in the meantime, continue to share your opinions with the administration.” WOW what a stinging rebuke !!!!
In the Cary Grant movie “Arsenic and Old Lace,” two widowed sisters live in a house where their crazy brother lives upstairs. “Uncle Teddy” thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, and emerges now and then to give stump speeches, or toss out pens used to sign the Panama Canal treaty.
Every time I read a new Republican press release about a $30-Billion program here, or $50-Billion miracle there, I see Uncle Teddy, throwing handfuls of fictitious pens to the people.
Our national debt was allowed BY THE GOP to balloon to its current record $40-Trillion in the hole. Scott Bessent’s sneaky bond buyback did nothing to help the bond market, which is about to blow like a bald tire and flip us all in the ditch.
Deep down Mr Johnson, I’m sure you’re happy enough about not going back. Yes sir, it’s a mess.
Who is Jonathan in this reimagining?
Voters. The administration would probably be Boris Karloff and the aunts, clearly criminal. Uncle Teddy/GOP carries on blithely unaware and ineffective.