Montana

According to a letter sent to landowners and leasing partners, President Darrel Monette says this process will allow them to stabilize finances, restructure debt, and continue operating.
The Montana Department of Livestock reports a brucellosis-affected herd in Beaverhead County.
Recent research predicts modest wolf impacts can cut ranch income 28%.
Fourth generation rancher begins her term as the first woman president of the MSGA since its inception in 1884.
How one multigenerational Montana ranch continues to ensure long-term viability.
The availability of livestock workers was ranked as more limited than crop workers and finding long-term help seen as more difficult than temporary help due to the seasonal nature of the ag industry.
After pleading guilty in January to mail fraud in connection with misrepresenting and underreporting cattle he grazed on Bureau of Land Management range, a Montana man receives probation and ordered to pay restitution.
A producer-owned meat processing facility is set to open in the north-central town of Havre, Montana, this fall.
A Canadian man alleged to be linked to multi-million-dollar hay fraud schemes in Montana, has been charged with similar crimes in Alberta.
Fox News founder and Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch has purchased the 340,000-acre Beaverhead Ranch in Southwest Montana from Koch Industries.
The Climbing Arrow Ranch consisting of nearly 80,000 acres near Bozeman - and featured in a 1992 Robert Redford movie - was under contract within a week for its asking price after a bidding war.
The newly crowned Miss Montana USA wandered out of her lane on social media, spreading misinformation and rankling the state’s cattlemen.
Montana ranchers have donated 45 head of cattle for breeding stock to their South Dakota counterparts who lost thousands of cattle in a freak blizzard in October.
Valuable dinosaur fossils found on a Montana ranch belong to the owners of the land’s surface rights, not the owners of the mineral rights, according to a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Montana Livestock Loss Board has paid ranchers for more than 360 animals killed by mountain lions, grizzly bears and wolves in 2019, the third consecutive year a new record was set for the payouts.
A grizzly bear in Montana has been euthanized following the discovery that it likely killed four cattle.
“We have no idea what it is,” Bruce Auchly, information manager for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said. “And we won’t until we get the DNA tests back.”
A rancher from Montana was sentenced to two years in prison and must pay back $2.1 million to a bank he defrauded out of money for cattle loans.
Wildlife officials have confirmed that a grizzly bear is responsible for killing a calf in central Montana.
An online petition at Change.org suggests selling Montana to Canada for $1 trillion. Montanans fail to see the humor.
A grizzly bear in Montana has been euthanized by wildlife officials after it was believed to have killed five cattle in the past year.
A huge Montana nature reserve added a 47,000-acre historic ranch to its patchwork of lands along the Missouri River on Friday, a significant step in a privately funded effort to stitch together a Connecticut-sized park where bison would replace livestock and cattle fences give way to open range.
A cow on a Montana ranch has delivered healthy triplet calves, a rare occurrence that happens only once in 105,000 live births.
Montana livestock officials say a cow from a Madison County cattle herd has tested positive for the disease brucellosis.
A grizzly bear in Montana has been euthanized following the discovery that it likely killed four cattle.
Wildlife officials have confirmed that a grizzly bear is responsible for killing a calf in central Montana.
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