Bill To Fund Improvements At Cottonwood Field Station Clears Senate Appropriations Committee

Bill To Fund Improvements At Cottonwood Field Station Clears Senate Appropriations Committee

PIERRE — A bill to fund repairs and upgrades at the Cottonwood Field Station in Jackson County will come under the examination of the South Dakota Senate. S-B-84 would upgrade the cattle research facility and repair damage from a 2019 wind storm. Brenda Foreman, lobbying on behalf of the South Dakota Cattleman’s Association says a small appropriation last year made a difference…

The project was not on the South Dakota Board of Regents priority list. That was an issue for Senator Reynold Nesiba…

Senator Bryan Breitling moved to send the bill on to the Senate floor…

Senate Bill 84 passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee seven to two.