Game and Fish makes a pitch for license fee increases
Game and Fish makes a pitch for license fee increases
April 16, 202112:42 pm
The Game and Fish Commission has begun actively promoting hunting and fishing license fee increases to cope with burgeoning maintenance needs.
If you don’t hunt or fish, you might not know that licenses for those activities haven’t risen since 1990 and 1984, respectively. The agency has made up operating costs from its share of the 1996 conservation sales tax.
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The fees are currently $10.50 for a fishing license and $25 for a hunting license. A pending bill would allow an increase of up to 65 percent of the fee beginning this year and lasting through 2026, with another 25 percent allowed then, and 25 percent more in 2031. That bill got a do-pass in a Senate committee this week but then was returned to the committee for more consideration.
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Dairy farmer Rodney Elliott stands in a small room where part of his $12 million robotic milking system is doing its job.
The robotic system is located inside a huge new barn on Elliott’s farm northeast of Lake Norden and is one of only a handful of fully robotic milking operations in South Dakota.
As the system functions flawlessly around him feeding, watering, bedding, washing and milking hundreds of cows day and night with nary a human touch Elliott watches with a mix of excitement and awe.
“My mother milked cows with just a bucket and a stool,” Elliott said, his Irish accent rising as in song. “We’ve sure come a long way, haven’t we?”