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.

Peas are showing their potential in Big Sky Country as farmers in Montana, and other parts of the Northern Great Plains, are shifting from cereal mono-cropping to a cereal-dry pea cropping system. Yield and performance of pea crops depend on both their genetics and the environment. Since environmental factors such as temperature and rainfall can […]

Montana State University reached a significant milestone in the university’s research and technology history recently with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency registration for the disease-fighting bacterium, BmJ WG. BmJ WG was discovered and named “Bacillus mycoides isolate J” by Barry Jacobsen, associate director of the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station and professor of plant sciences and plant […]