This September, the Montana Stockgrowers Association is hitting the road to continue the Producer Profitability Initiative conversation. This statewide effort is aimed to bring Montana’s agricultural producers together to share updates, exchange ideas and continue the work of building a sustainable future for the livestock industry. Two years ago, the Producer Profitability Initiative

The Montana State University Extension Pesticide Education Program is offering a pest management tour for pesticide applicators at nine locations across eastern Montana from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2. In order, the tour will visit Scobey, Plentywood, Glasgow, Malta, Glendive, Sidney, Miles City, Broadus and Forsyth. At each stop, speakers will present on a variety of topics, including fire, drought

As airports grow more crowded, U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy told Montana residents on Wednesday, Aug. 26, that passenger rail could help fuel more tourism and economic growth in the Big Sky state. Sheehy, a Republican speaking at the Greater Northwest Rail Summit, also gave an update on legislation that would remove federal match requirements by local governments for long-distance passenger rail corridors

A secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation,

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has announced a landmark settlement agreement with Meta Platforms, Inc. for intentionally designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to minors and for misleading the public about the safety of its platforms. Montana has the potential to receive $127 million from the settlement and is guaranteed to receive $89 million. In 2021, Knudsen launched an

A group of Montana students, families and tribes has reached a settlement with the state Office of Public Instruction that’s set to bring closure to a yearslong legal dispute about how the state implements its constitutional requirement to provide Indigenous education. The settlement, if approved, would resolve a class action lawsuit filed in 2021 in which plaintiffs alleged the state has

Gov. Greg Gianforte has joined members of his Unleashing American-Made Energy Task Force at the Montana State Capitol to receive its final report of recommendations and strategies for Montana to unleash American-made energy. “When I established this task force, I asked you to confront a question facing Montana and the entire West: how do we increase the supply of affordable, reliable energy