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Melisa Goss

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Sioux Falls
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Covers:  agriculture, farming, ranching, rural issues,
Assistant editor at the Tri-State Neighbor. Pulitzer Center fellow. Global wanderer. Prairie girl. Tweets are my own.

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My name is Melisa Goss and I am the assistant editor for the Tri-State Neighbor. It’s a newspaper I grew up reading, as agriculture has always been integral to my family. My paternal grandparents were in the sheep industry for ages. (In fact, sheep have been in the Goss family since we arrived in America in 1623!) My maternal grandparents milked Holsteins and grew corn, soybeans, wheat, and more. My parents raise black Angus. So it’s safe to say, I’ve seen the ins and outs of ag from an early …

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Grasslands and bison: Made for each other

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By Melisa Goss Verified
| Minnesota Farm Guide
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South Dakota farmer shares hard-won lessons on organic transition

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By Melisa Goss Verified
| Minnesota Farm Guide
Innovation requires careful testing. That was a key takeaway for Blake Burggraff over the last few years as he worked to transition his crop ground to certified organic. Burggraff, who served as a Tri-State Neighbor Crop Watcher in 2023, has now been certified organic on his crop ground for two years. The Minnehaha County producer opened his farm to the public during a Sept. 20 field day hosted by South Dakota Specialty Producers Association.
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Beef, bison & foreign business: South Dakota exports widen global reach

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By Joe Sneve, Melisa Goss Verified
| The Dakota Scout
Agricultural leaders and policymakers are urging U.S. producers to expand their reach into emerging markets and reduce reliance on China, even as the Asian nation remains a major buyer of American farm goods. “It’s so hard to cut a deal with China because they don't have a very good track record of holding up their end of the bargain,” Rep. Dusty Johnson told a packed room of producers, business leaders and commodity groups during the 2025 Midwest Agricultural Export Summit in Sioux Falls on Aug.
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