Ag News Stories

Paradise Valley, MT — The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) today announced an innovative payment-for-presence program to compensate a rancher for providing elk habitat in Montana’s Paradise Valley.  Using …

OMAHA (DTN) — USDA on Friday released its January Crop Production, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) Dec. 1 Grain Stocks and Winter Wheat Seedings reports. USDA pegged final …

The majority of the cow-calf sector has been on the defense for the past two to three years due to adverse weather and production cost conditions.  Widespread drought has forced …

Given agriculture’s ongoing struggle to recruit domestic workers and a very tight U.S. labor market overall, it should be no surprise that H-2A program usage reached new highs again in …

The Montana State University Rodeo team is getting ready for the spring season and now, student athletes have a new facility to practice and board livestock and horses. Last fall …

A research team in the Montana State University College of Agriculture has received $4 million in new funding to help lay the groundwork for disease prevention and management of wild and domestic …

A new law will require some farmers and ranchers to file reports about their business with the government. In 2021 congress enacted the congressional transparency act to stop more financial …

By Jennifer Carrico, DTN Senior Livestock Editor The fourth quarter of 2023 brought much price fluctuation for both feeder cattle and fat cattle, leading many to question if some risk …

SPONSORED- Most of us are in winter feeding mode. Winter feeding means more intimate time spent with the cow herd that, for the most part, has been lost for the …

The Montana Wheat & Barley Committee (MWBC) chose to fund 27 applications for the 2024 research cycle. Awards totaled $2,234,327, a 33 percent increase over the 2023 budget and the …