Kirk Siegler
speaker
267 appearances
46 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 19 Aug
Kirk Siegler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Kirk Sigler in PR News, Pasadena.
These bridge payments, as the administration is calling them, are meant to offset the effects of the president's trade war and tariffs that have left American soybeans here in the bins and not exported to China.
The aid is expected to arrive by early March, but farmers like John Kipley say they need the money right now.
Kipley says banks won't lend because they know farmers will still be in the red next season.
One estimate at a Farmers Union conference here showed that's the case for close to half of all the farms in South Dakota, where many family farms without capital could soon be out of business.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, here in South Dakota.
NPR's Kirk Siegler reports from South Dakota.
These bridge payments, as the president is calling them, should be coming to farmers early next year.
Many like Kevin Dynert are on thin margins due to inflation, tariffs, and Trump's trade war closing off Asian markets for soybeans.
Most here in the Dakotas are grown for export.
Pretty much all of Deinert's soybeans are still sitting in storage.
He's holding out for higher prices and is counting on the administration's promises that it's secured deals with China so that country begins importing commodities from the U.S.
again.
Kirk Ziegler, NPR News, Mitchell, South Dakota.
The Democrats are citing a recent analysis by retired firefighters that shows the U.S.
Forest Service is 38 percent behind its own targets for prescribed fires, thinning and other projects aimed at making Western public forests less vulnerable to wildfires.
This follows President Trump's hiring freeze and doge cuts.
In a letter to the Forest Service chief, Democrats, including Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Mark Heinrich of New Mexico,
demand a response by next week on questions like how many wildland firefighters are actually on the job and where specific staffing gaps are causing the delay in prevention work.
The Trump administration has maintained its cuts are making the forest service more efficient and the agency has what it needs to fight fires.
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