On Aug. 28, the Grand and Reserve Champion 4-H/FFA steer from 10 eastern Montana county fairs advanced to the prestigious Champion of Champion…
SIDNEY, Mont. – While some pulses have taken a downturn in interest from end-users, yellow peas continue to command attention from food ingred…
MALTA, Mont. – The Merrimans have been busy with fall work at Merriman’s 4M Farms, with the weather cooling down – at least in the mornings.
HELENA, Mont. – As summer melts into fall across the Helena Valley, life continues to march on for Joe and Julie Dooling of Cedar Creek Land a…
LEDGER, Mont. – The Montana seasons seem to be the most defined within the state’s Golden Triangle. Early spring shows shades of brown with ju…
According to the Montana Cooperative Development Center (MCDC), co-ops have been a part of the fabric of the Montana’s economy nearly as long …
October is National Co-op Month, where the benefits and services a cooperative provides for its members are recognized. There are thousands of…
In 2020, the seventh most dangerous profession in the United States was farming and ranching. When it comes to working with large equipment an…
Like hail, wind, and precipitation, too much heat is often the cause of crop insurance claims.
Chores on the farm take on new meaning when children are young and need continual care.
Paying homage to the traditions of the western stock horse, the Montana 4-H Working Ranch Horse Project is one of the fastest growing projects…
While Montana’s climate is absolutely ideal for growing malt barley, how does it fair for hops? Tom Britz, owner and CEO of Glacier Hops Ranch…
MALTA, Mont. – Some nice rain has fallen at the Merriman’s 4M Farms, providing a nice seedbed for the upcoming winter wheat crop.
HELENA, Mont. – After weeks of chasing green lines of hay, Joe Dooling is now busy as ever chasing white lines down the interstate. With two c…
LEDGER, Mont. – Building a house is hard. Harvesting two crops is hard. Raising a toddler is hard. Doing all three of them at the same time wh…
After a June and July plagued with record-high temperatures, Montana producers gave a sigh of relief as temperatures began to cool around the …
SIDNEY, Mont. –Montana State University’s Eastern Ag Research Center in Sidney has been a good nursery to test winter wheat varieties - for th…
WILLMAR, Minn. – The farmland market is a hot commodity right now. Eager buyers are offering good prices to motivated sellers.
A new hard red spring wheat variety with moderate resistance to Fusarium head blight (FHB) has been released by the Montana Ag Experiment Station.
Wheat harvest is well underway, and with hot and excessively dry conditions being experienced across the state, harvest has been progressing f…
As the largest non-formal youth organization in the United States, 4-H offers a plethora of life skills, lessons, and opportunities to those w…
September is right around the corner and that means so is the prestigious Montana Wool Growers Association (MWGA) annual ram and ewe sales. To…
MALTA, Mont. – At 4M Farms, Anna Merriman drives the tractor pulling the chisel down the field, preparing the fields for winter wheat planting.
HELENA, Mont. – Farming in Montana isn’t always the easiest of jobs, especially when Mother Nature is prone to have mood swings. For most of t…
LEDGER, Mont. – It is that time of year where Montana’s Golden Triangle is abuzz with the sounds of combines are rolling through wheat as grai…
Although scattered rain storms were experienced across the state of Montana during the second week of August, little drought relief was provid…
On July 21, the Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) announced it had secured a $500,000 grant from the USDA’s Farm and Ranch Stress Assist…