Despite concerns about inflation, agricultural bankers overall are more upbeat about the profitability they are seeing from their loan customers than in the past five years. The ABA and Federal…
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Montana and Wyoming Sugar Beet and Malt Barley Symposium Coming Back to Billings
by Colter BrownBOZEMAN — Registration is now open for the 2022 Montana and Wyoming Sugar Beet and Malt Barley Symposium, which will be held Jan. 12-13 at the Billings Hotel and Convention…
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Crop Prices Projected to Decline, Livestock Prices to Rise Over the Next Decade
by Colter BrownRecently released USDA projections reveal expectations for U.S. crop prices to decrease over the next 10 years while prices for major animal products, except hogs, are forecast to increase. Expected…
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Producers Receive Smaller Share of Retail Thanksgiving Dinner Price
by Colter BrownJust when it seemed there was nothing left to draw political lines over, the cost of this year’s Thanksgiving meal may bring a little heat from the proverbial kitchen into…
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Ranchers Prioritize Local Conservation, Sound Science in Sage Grouse Scoping Process
by Colter BrownOn Friday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced the beginning of a scoping process on Greater Sage-Grouse management, a part of the agency’s process to revise west-wide management plans…
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The Navigable Waters Protection Rule would be repealed and replaced with pre-2015 definitions of waters of the U.S. in a proposal released by EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of…
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SPONSORED: Chronic Wasting Disease is a 100% fatal disease that infects members of the deer family, including elk, moose, mule, and white-tailed deer. CWD is not a virus, bacteria, or…
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Making Grazing Management Decisions After Severe Drought
by Colter BrownDr. Jeff Mosley, MSU Extension, talked to a packed room in the Grazing Management; Decisions After Sever Drought workshop at the Montana Farm Bureau Convention in Billings last week. In…
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U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) say that the announcement that Vietnam’s government will eliminate a 3 percent tariff on U.S. wheat imports effective…
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Montana Farm Bureau Sets Policy and Elects First Female President at Convention
by Colter BrownMontana Farm Bureau Federation members representing 30 county Farm Bureau statewide gathered in Billings this week to discuss, debate and vote on policy for the coming year. Farm Bureau policy…