Jackley Announces Ag and Rail Platforms
PIERRE: After traveling the state to meet with producers from every corner of South Dakota, Attorney General Marty Jackley is announcing his platform for the future of South Dakota agriculture and rail.
“Our team’s plan is informed by our personal experiences with farming and ranching, as well as the expertise of the stakeholders who have joined our campaign by and for South Dakota,” Jackley said. “After traveling the state to listen to farmers, ranchers, processors, cooperatives, truckers, researchers, and agriculture education instructors, I’ve heard the voices who make up the backbone of our agricultural way of life. All of those voices brought together helped build our Growing South Dakota Ag Initiative to support the more than 31,000 farms and ranches across our state.”
Jackley’s ag and rail platforms call for action on the following:
- Enhance transportation infrastructure, including rail projects at the Wolsey Interchange, Napa Junction, and improvements to existing state-owned rail.
- Support our growing livestock sector by promoting best management practices, education, and research.
- Expand value-added agriculture with more flexibility in the use of the REDI Fund and full utilization of the Value-Added Ag Subfund to provide grants and loans for development.
- Hold the line on property taxation and look for ways to reduce the property tax burden.
- Support advances in ag research and precision agriculture to increase the number of South Dakota producers who gain from these benefits.
- Expand access to international markets by promoting sound trade policy and leading South Dakota trade delegations to areas with growing economies such as China, South America, and the Pacific Rim.
- Fight EPA bureaucracy and useless DC regulations when they hurt South Dakota agriculture. I have successfully fought these as attorney general and will continue to fight them as governor.
- Increase the production of ethanol, oilseeds, and biodiesel, support the Renewable Fuel Standard and oppose EPA efforts to expand the number of RFS small refinery waivers that reduce South Dakota biofuel production.
- Expand agricultural education, internship opportunities, and curriculum.
- Promote natural resources conservation by aggressively fighting the pine beetle infestations in the Black Hills, promoting water quality through tax incentives, and encouraging investments in wildlife habitat on state and private lands.
“When our ag economy is strong, all of South Dakota is strong,” Jackley said. “Together, we can build the infrastructure, create the value, and generate the capital we need to maximize our ag industry’s competitiveness and provide an even brighter future for rural South Dakota.”
Read the Marty Jackley Growing South Dakota Ag Initiative in its entirety here.
Read the Marty Jackley Rail Initiative in its entirety here.
This is very good to hear. I love both of our Republican candidates. It’s smart for Jackley to address Agriculture considering his opponent is the most affluent and competent in regards to what necessitates running a proper operation and what role the Government should or should not play. I’ll be looking forward to hearing how Kristi will address how she will fight the crime and drug problems growing in our state as Governor.
If you’re going to “Enhance transportation infrastructure” you also need to address paying for it. Or will this be like Daugaard’s teacher pay tax increase, or his wheel tax increase?
Jackley might have single handedly delivered tens of millions to SD with his supreme court performance. Who needs tax increases when you can find a better way?
We shall see. I’m skeptical that the SC will go against precedent.
How do you figure he “delivered tens of millions to SD?”
If the Supreme Court rules out of state companies must collect sales taxes and remit to the State of South Dakota, South Dakota state law automatically reduces the general sales tax rate to make the Supreme Court ruling revenue neutral. That is the law.
All this ruling would do is put South Dakota Main Street on the same footing as out of state online businesses.
I’ll root for the sales tax cut of .5%