HELENA, Mont. - The Montana Agribusiness Foundation is proud to announce the recipients of its 2026 scholarship program. This year’s scholarship winners are Madelyn DeVries of Denton, Mont.; Avery Schubert of Hardin, Mont.; Hattie Hossfeld of Ranchester, Wyo.; and Dani Taylor of Stanford, Mont.
There aren’t many teenagers that are regularly awake at 5:30 a.m., but for 17-year-old Kenndyl Meine, her days have to start that early just so she even has a prayer of getting everything she needs to do done in a day.
It may be easy to assume 17-year-old Nathan Long from Lewistown, Mont., grew up without much of a choice when it came to joining 4-H and FFA. After all, his father, Jared Long, is the agriculture education teacher and FFA advisor for the Fergus of Lewistown chapter. But when you listen to Na…
Raising goats and chickens and marketing their products will be an enterprising, creative business for an FFA Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE), according to Everett Spear, 14, a freshman in the fall at Drake-Anamoose High School.
An ag roundtable organized by U.S. Sen. John Hoeven addressed current North Dakota farmer/rancher concerns with Farm Service Agency Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation Richard Fordyce at NDSU’s Barry Hall in Fargo on May 26.
In a full circle celebration of Montana agriculture, Montana Farm Bureau Federation (MFBF) is excited to be unveiling their new beer at the organization’s 2026 summer conference to be held June 15-17 in Kalispell.
With much of cow country considered in drought conditions going into the summer grazing season, producers tuned in May 27 on social media to watch a live panel discussion hosted by the Society for Range Management through their “Good Grazing Makes Cents” program in the hopes of gaining insig…
BOZEMAN — The Montana Department of Livestock and Montana State University Extension have issued guidance for the Montana livestock industry after a destructive parasitic fly called New World screwworm was detected in Texas.
The hot summer months can be a challenge for cattle herds. Heat can affect performance in several ways, including average daily gains and reproductive issues.
INVERNESS, Mont. – It is officially growing season across the Northern Great Plains. June is a significant month for many because it marks a milestone in the production year – agriculturalists have survived the hardship of calving and planting season, and now it is time to watch their respec…
There’s a difference between weed control and weed suppression, according to south central Nebraska farmer Jordan Uldrich. Control is what can be achieved with herbicides. “You’re not stopping the weed,” Uldrich said. “They’re to clean up afterward. Interseeding is weed suppression.”
Experts said an outbreak could cause $1.8 billion in damage to Texas' economy and likely would raise beef prices by shrinking cattle supply.
Near Rockham in northeastern South Dakota, spring calving season stretches across much of the year for Jade Jandel.
Waterhemp remains one of the costliest threats to farms in central and eastern North Dakota and Minnesota. The troublesome weed was found in 38 of North Dakota’s 53 counties last year and it continues to spread north and west in the state.
On the Mockler family farm near Centerville, spring planting is a full-family effort.
“When I go out to the pasture, they all follow me around. They’ve been referred to as my herd of dogs.”
FOXHOLM, N.D. – On a warm, exceptionally windy day in mid-May with gusts up to 50-60 miles per hour in northwestern North Dakota, Brandon Bock, reported on their operation from the cab of his truck.
A surprisingly powerful dust and windstorm seemed to come out of nowhere on May 14 across the state, bringing strong winds of 40-60 miles per hour with fierce gusts of over 65 miles per hour, tossing and swirling dirt and debris in the air and dumping it on fields and forages.
Born and raised in southern Alberta, Canada, Candy Wilcox says she truly has always had a deep passion and love for horses. Despite growing up on a dryland farm, Wilcox kept begging her parents for a horse and they finally relented when she was 15 years old. The rest, as they say, is history.
On a regular Monday in April, when the average person was at work or school, millions of dollars changed hands before lunch in a sale barn in southeastern South Dakota.
It is no secret that the cattle and beef industry is one of the most contentious and divided agriculture industries in the US. With key industry leading groups often vocally disagreeing with other leaders, it has been increasingly difficult for meaningful policy to be enacted because lawmake…
With fertilizer prices rising, biologicals are becoming a huge area of interest to farmers, according to Leo Bortolon, NDSU research agronomist at North Central Regional Extension Center (NCREC) south of Minot, N.D. Bortolon has been testing biologicals in several crops at the center, includ…
FOXHOLM, N.D. – Tractors are on the move in the north central region of the state, and Brandon and Jessie Bock, who own Bock Farms near Foxholm, have begun seeding their diverse crops under cool, partly cloudy weather in the high 40s and a couple of warm 70-degree days.
INVERNESS, Mont. – As warm weather is becoming more reliable across the northern Great Plains, fieldwork continues to progress. For Stine-Lise Decker and her father, Kim Haaland, who farm together south of the Hi-Line towns of Inverness and Chester, this year’s planting season has been nothi…
Urea prices, along with other nitrogen fertilizers, will squeeze farmers’ pockets this planting season, unless producers have already locked in prices for the year and can count on their co-op having the supply needed.
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