The trials are across the road from the winter wheat trials and include chickpea, field pea, safflower and camelina variety trials and chickpea population and chickpea seed size studies. Our goal is to promote a civil discussion about the news of the day and items of interests for those in the rapidcityjournal.com community. We will never edit or alter your comments, but we do reserve the right to not post or to remove comments that violate our code of conduct. We ask that readers keep...

Sondra Lothrop, Lincoln More lessons in history A quick paragraph-by-paragraph response for Wayne Simpson ( letter, May 30): First of all, I do not understand how Simpson can make comments concerning a students remarks, or letter writer John Gruhl, for that matter. Perhaps one can see a correlation between this loss of Keeping holy the Lords Day and the general decline in moral values that we have seen over the past 50 years. Sondra Lothrop, Lincoln More lessons in history A quick...

BIZ/FINANCE ARTICLES Indian consulate in Manhattan celebrated the arrival of Indian mangoes - banned by the US for 18 years Media Release The US allowed the import of Indian mangoes in April, ending a ban over quarantine concerns, following an agreement between US President George Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi a year ago. The private traders have purchased 3.63 lakh tonnes of wheat which was 10 per cent of the total arrival, he added. BIZ/FINANCE ARTICLES Indian...

With all the news coverage of the presidential candidates in both parties, I was looking forward to voting for one of them. For less than one-third of 1 percent of the federal budget, federal farm policy plays a large role in this bounty by providing a safety net for American growers and their communities. It is not right to let illegal aliens be educated in K-12 schools and pay in-state college tuition rates, all at taxpayers' expense, then not to let legal taxpaying citizens vote in an...

The alliance said yesterday it was confident of achieving the target of establishing a new wheat export organisation by March 1, 2008. He said the group had agreed on the principles it needed to follow since the announcement on May 22, but was still working on the process. Mr Nalder said the alliance would do what it had to do to silence the critics and stand the test of time. Email me if my comment is published Search for more stories on this topic on Newstext, our news archive service....