OPINION I recently finished doing paperwork for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Stewardship Program. The program has some of the typical USDA projects that I would expect – fencing that’s wildlife-friendly, water-pipeline and water-tank installation to entice cows out of the bottom of the creek, and rotational grazing. We applied for and received a USDA Environmental Quality Incentives Program cost-share about 15 years ago; that was for fencing and water-pipeline projects.
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Bruce and Wendy Shultz operate a cow-calf ranch near Raynesford, Montana; they’ve been running the ranch full-time since 2000, and are the fourth generation on the ranch. Bruce Shultz was in 2020 elected National Farmers Organization vice-president, having served as national director for Montana for the three previous years.





