Dream Night Wind

People talk about water having an imprinted memory of where it's ever been and what it's been used for. More than likely accurate. Soil also obviously has an imprinted memory stretching deep into antiquity. As go our soils, so go our souls. Take care of the ground, be grateful.

@RepMikeLawler June is a month to celebrate cows and dairy products.

June is Pride Month, a time to celebrate love, acceptance, and the freedom to be yourself. Happy Pride Month to all who are celebrating!

@LeaderJohnThune Got the SAVE Act passed yet?

Always an honor to welcome veterans from South Dakota to our nation’s capital. Thank you for your service and sacrifice to our country.

BREAKING: I took legal action as part of a sweeping investigation into corporate giants, including Bayer, for poisoning Texans through glyphosate contamination in food.

Big news! Texas State AG cracks down on oats contaminated with Glyphosate. "Healthy" food claims on products with high levels will be targeted in this investigation. This took extraordinary political courage - thank you @KenPaxtonTX

1/2 inch of rain last night. You can almost see the grass growing. Thanks to the Lord for providing for us.

@RandyFeenstra You should try to get Trump's endorsement. That's the only thing that really matters.

We had a full house for our final #RallyWithRandy at the Pizza Ranch in Hull where Lynette and I worked and first met. I’m blessed with a wonderful and supportive family and I’m so proud to call Hull and rural Iowa home. Get out and VOTE for Randy Feenstra tomorrow!

"Land conservation" programs include: -herbicide spraying -invasive plant "suppression" -cover crop termination, brush and fence-line vegetation control -aerial spraying projects Under these programs, farmers and ranchers can -Apply for conservation funding -Include herbicide spraying in their land management plan -Purchase chemicals like glyphosate -Get reimbursed by USDA In other words: Federal "conservation" money can indirectly subsidize agrochemical use across millions of acres.

Op-ed: For years, Iowa politicians treated agricultural pollution as the third rail of state politics. Now, gubernatorial candidates are openly campaigning on clean water, cancer prevention, and stricter manure and fertilizer controls. ✍️ @modeshift thenewlede.org/2026/06/pollut…

“Excessive fertilizer use is poisoning water, air and wildlife […] it is outrageous and unacceptable. We need commonsense guardrails on nitrogen overapplication and runoff,” said J.P. Rose, a director of soil health, nature at @NRDC. thenewlede.org/2026/06/nitrog…

@RandyFeenstra Did you get a Trump endorsement? That's the only thing that really matters.

I’ve been to a lot of Pizza Ranches across Iowa on my statewide tour, but the Hull Pizza Ranch is still my favorite. It’s where I met my wonderful wife of 32 years, Lynette. We call it our Pizza Ranch romance. Now, we have four fantastic kids and a great life in rural Iowa!

@giveashitnature I'm rooting for the toads.

The Wyoming toad was declared extinct in the wild in the 1980s. Today, it barely hangs on because for nearly 40 years, a network of zoos and biologists have refused to let it go. The Wyoming toad lived in exactly one place on Earth: the floodplains of the Laramie Basin in Wyoming. In the 1970s, it crashed, likely due to a combination of pesticide exposure, habitat alteration, water-management changes, and later the emergence of chytrid fungus. By 1984 it was federally listed as endangered. By 1985, it was presumed extinct. Then in 1987, a single small population was rediscovered at Mortenson Lake. Wyoming Game and Fish collected the last wild individuals and started a captive breeding program. That population collapsed within a few years, and in 1991 the species was officially declared extinct in the wild. The first reintroductions began in 1995. It was one of the first amphibian conservation programs to try to re-establish a species through captive breeding in its historic range. Today, the only wild population is at Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge, with additional reintroduction sites on private Safe Harbor properties along the Little Laramie River. About 675 toads live in captivity with roughly 200,000 tadpoles and young toads released over the years. 33,000 tadpoles were released in 2025 alone. The recovery is far from finished. As of this writing, the wild population is not self-sustaining. The species depends on the captive breeding program. Some conservation is a triumphant comeback, but most of it looks like this: a small team doing the same hard work every year, refusing to let a species end on their watch.

Lax regulations and mismanaged applications in the US are to blame for the tons of nitrogen fertilizer that runs off into waterways each year and contributes to water and air pollution, cancer and environmental damage, according to a new @NRDC report. thenewlede.org/2026/06/nitrog…

@LeaderJohnThune @POTUS Have you passed the SAVE Act yet?

.@POTUS and Republicans have cleaned up Democrats’ mess at the border. We’ve secured the southern border and put criminals on notice that they will no longer be living freely in our country, and we plan to keep it that way.

Candidates of both parties for governor and for secretary of agriculture have included among their campaign priorities Iowa’s rising cancer incidence, and the nitrate water contamination that may well be responsible. thenewlede.org/2026/06/pollut… @thenewledenews @modeshift

One.More.Day. Vote @ZachLahn #IowaFirst 🗳️

Starting today, all our beef comes from pasture-raised cattle. Our beef is 100% grass-fed and grass-finished — no antibiotics or hormones added, ever. Steak n Shake is committed to serving the healthiest kind of beef at reasonable prices. It is simply the right thing to do. Let us know what you think of our 100% grass-fed Steakburgers. Go MAHA!

Iowa First, always. Vote for @ZachLahn this Tuesday. zachlahn.com/vote-lahn

Voters deserve honesty, so let’s drop the polite fiction. Dusty Johnson has built a political career on doing the bidding of the very industries he’s supposed to regulate. The pattern isn’t subtle. It’s not complicated. And it’s not accidental. It’s the predictable result of a politician who has decided that the fastest route to power is through the boardrooms of agribusiness and chemical giants, not the farmsteads of South Dakota. Take the pesticide‑liability shield Johnson pushed in the 2026 Farm Bill. This wasn’t some obscure technical fix. It was a gift legal force field for companies facing lawsuits over products linked to cancer. When Republicans in his own party backed away from the idea, Johnson doubled down, insisting that states shouldn’t be allowed to require stronger warnings than the EPA. And this wasn’t a one‑off. Johnson’s earlier Agricultural Labeling Uniformity Act, celebrated by industry, condemned by consumer advocates would have stripped states of the power to require GMO or pesticide disclosures. Groups like ours blasted the bill as a corporate wish list. They’re not wrong. When every “uniformity” measure conveniently aligns with the needs of the companies that profit from opacity, it’s obedience to industry. Johnson likes to present himself as the reasonable adult in the room, the guy who just wants “science‑based” policy. But when the science is contested, emerging, or inconvenient for industry, he always seems to land on the side that keeps corporate lawyers smiling. South Dakotans deserve a representative who sees them as more than a backdrop for his climb to higher office. Instead, they’ve been handed a congressman who treats industry talking points like gospel and treats consumer protections like clutter to be swept aside. If Johnson wants to lead South Dakota as governor, he owes voters a clearer explanation of why his legislative instincts so reliably align with corporate interests. Until then, voters should assume the obvious, he’s industry friendly to the max. aol.com/news/us-rep-du…

@def_leppar20044 The Grateful Dead.

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