It appears to have been a busy week for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Montana after two separately charged fraudsters allegedly admitted to a Bureau of Land Management cattle grazing scheme out of Billings and a bank defrauding scheme out of Lewistown.
This op-ed is a response to a New York Times opinion piece titled by Chef Vivian Howard that explores closures of high-end dining establishments.
Women who work with their hands — whether that be farming, ranching, construction, gardening, machinery, or others — know the importance of protecting their livelihood.
Sixty percent of the American West, Southwest, and Central Plains have been categorized as a D1 (moderate) drought or higher, putting agricultural production and commodities at risk, while threatening to impact consumers with increased prices and scarcity of goods.
Survey results have shown Montana State University researchers that farmers and ranchers throughout Montana and the West experience, on average, a medium level of stress, which could impact their sleep, physical health, mental health, or relationships, according to Michelle Grocke, health, and wellness. Montana State University Extension and Department of Health have several free farm stress, mental health resources, and grants for farmers and ranchers.
Pesticide applicator certification programs are done on a variety of levels and are a keystone of effective and safe pesticide use in agriculture.
The National Dairy Herd Information Association Scholarship Committee chose nine high school seniors and college students to receive a $1,000 scholarship.
We should all be in favor of keeping our waterways clean and healthy, but the new WOTUS regulations are too ambiguous for farmers to be comfortable with.
Hormones are chemical messengers that signal processes in the body, whether they’re an animal, plant, or human. All of us produce hormones.
Over the last three Agriculture Censuses, it has been recorded that Black farmers have increased but the land owned and operated has decreased.