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south dakota governor christie gnomes proposed merging the state department of agriculture with environment and natural resources so far the proposal has support from farm groups but it also needs legislative approval state officials provided an update at the south dakota farm bureau convention south dakota lieutenant governor larry rhoden says there are synergies between the two divisions but also duplication so there will be cost savings the fact of the matter is both departments have become largely regulatory in nature and so it's a good fit from an efficiency standpoint and reducing redundancy and regulation to have them working together d-e-n-r secretary hunter roberts says both agencies work on everything from livestock permits to pesticide spill investigations there were some overlapping inspectors in team members where both agencies were going to to incidences or both agencies were going to permit ease and this merger allows them to consolidate allows us to consolidate that whi