Articles with the Tag: Agriculture
POLSON — Amonth-old white Katahdin lamb named Corn nestled into kids’ arms at the Fourth Grade Ag Days, sponsored by the Lake County Conservation District. Corn and his younger cocoa-colored friend are “bottle babies,” meaning their mothers couldn’t or wouldn’t fe...
BOZEMAN — The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is making $235 million available through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program to improve the nation’s water quality, combat drought, enhance soil health, support wildlife habitat and protect agricultural viability. Pre-propo...
ST. IGNATIUS – Irrigators who use the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project to water their crops will likely see a significant increase in fees on their next assessment bills, as project managers try to raise funds to tackle millions of dollars of improvements needed to keep the decades old, dilapidating ...
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is making available $332 million in financial and technical assistance through the Agriculture Conservation Easement Program. ACEP applications may be submitted at any time to NRCS; however, applications for the current funding cycle must be submitted on or bef...
RONAN — When you start talking to Cal Lindburg, his wife Alice, and some of Cal’s friends, an image emerges — a family man, involved in his church, a good businessman and a civic leader with a sprinkling of the practical joker for leavening. Cal and Alice Lindburg will be celebrati...
HELENA – State officials say they intend to spend the summer re-writing some rules for legislative lobbying, after a complaint was filed April 3 against agencies working for passage of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact. The complaint, filed by Flathead County Republican...
News from the Montana Department of Livestock MONTANA — Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed in chickens in Judith Basin County. This is the first case of HPAI reported in domestic poultry in Montana and comes less than a week after the disease was detected in a captive gyrfal...
BILLINGS — More than1,600 members and guests attended Montana FFA’s 85th Annual State Convention March 25-28 in Billings. The Montana FFA State Convention hosted 13 career development events, general sessions and workshop during the four-day event. The winning teams earn the opportunity to com...
POLSON — A Ronan man denied charges that he had swindled nearly $180,000 from two men while acting as a livestock broker in 2013. On Thursday, Andrew Jackson, 29, pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of deceptive practices in Judge Deborah Kim Christopher’s Lake County District Court. ...
ST. IGNATIUS – The Flathead Joint Board of Control has released a privately-commissioned study that predicts irrigators will receive substantially less water under the proposed Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact than is necessary to sustain agriculture for farms on the project, but g...
