In the more sparsely settled upper valleys, corn, cattle, and forestry are the economic mainstays.
Agriculture, including soybeans, corn, cattle and hogs, is still a major industry in South Dakota, but the state's economy is more diversified than it once was, with substantial health care, manufacturing and financial services sectors.
I raise corn and cattle and soybeans.
Creekstone partisans point to its single-facility operation, which affords better supervision, and its Corn Belt cattle from Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Oklahoma.
If anything similar were inserted by genetic engineers into corn or cattle, there would no doubt be an outcry.
Massive monocultural enterprises -- vast expanses of corn, numberless cattle crammed into gargantuan feedlots -- require a heavy reliance on antibiotics and pesticides.
"Guys in trucks would come and pick you up to work in the lemon fields, picking peppers or tending corn or cattle.
In Scandinavia and Germany also they were friendly to men, but occasionally they stole corn, teased cattle, and abducted children and young girls.
This house was built as the "big house" of a plantation, not included in the sale, that today produces cotton, corn and cattle.
Around Meyer, part of a region of endless fields of soybeans, corn and cattle, state conservation police officers rode door to door in boats to ensure that everyone had left, and flew over in a helicopter, scanning for anyone stranded.
PAGE A15 AMERICAN IN EYE OF BOLIVIAN STORM Since Ronald Larsen, an American farmer, drove his pickup truck to Bolivia from his native Montana in 1969, he has lived a quiet life, farming corn, herding cattle and amassing vast land holdings.
