Rising Inputs, Unsteady Markets: Montana Producers Feel the Squeeze From the Hi-Line to the Yellowstone
Across Montana, the story producers keep coming back to in coffee shops and sale barns isn’t just cattle prices or hay yields—it’s…
Across Montana, the story producers keep coming back to in coffee shops and sale barns isn’t just cattle prices or hay yields—it’s…
Farmers market season in Montana is more than a Saturday morning tradition. For small farms, ranch families, and value-added operators, it can…
Thursday’s midday-to-afternoon grain trade featured a notable push higher in soybeans, with corn and winter wheat also holding firm, according to market…
Grain and livestock futures finished mixed on March 10, with cattle contracts showing notable strength while several grain contracts drifted lower. Reports…
USDA’s latest supply-and-demand update kept projected U.S. ending stocks for corn, soybeans, and wheat essentially unchanged from the previous month, according to…
Reports out of national water-quality research circles suggest something important for working producers: changes in what gets grown—and how plants use nitrogen—may…
Explore the economic value of irrigated agriculture in Montana, its significance, and future trends.
Export market chatter turned a little more upbeat for corn this week, while soybeans and wheat didn’t show the same spark. Reports…
Reports from national market analysts indicate corn and soybeans moved higher in overnight trade as crude oil continued to rally. That kind…
Montana ranchers don’t need a lecture on corn to feel corn prices. Even in a state where hay, pasture and barley do…
Montana producers don’t have time to hunt around the internet when a water call changes, a pest shows up, or haying weather…
Scroll any feed long enough and you’ll see it: a header rolling off the Crazy Mountains, a windrow laid just right, a…
Scroll long enough in July and you’ll see it: a state in motion. Swathers laying down hay, combines chewing through wheat, calves…
Scroll any summer evening and you’ll find it: windrows lined up like corduroy, a baler kicking dust in the last light, calves…
In Montana, a milk check can feel a lot like river flows in July: you can’t control the weather upstream, but you…
Montanans don’t need an infographic to know we’re a big-land state. You can drive for hours across wheat country, skirt irrigated valleys,…
Super Bowl and the Surge in Chicken Wing Consumption As the excitement builds for Super Bowl LX, reports indicate that Americans could…
Montana Voices Call for Clearer Food Origin Information In recent discussions across Montana’s agricultural communities, there has been a growing call for…