2023 Winter Photo Contest!
Western Ag Reporter is launching our 1st annual Winter Photo Contest! Anyone is eligible to submit photos. For photos to be considered they must showcase ANYTHING agriculture in the Winter months around Reporter Country. Photos of any livestock, farming, and ranching are highly encouraged. Email...
2023 Winter Photo Contest!
Western Ag Reporter is launching our 1st annual Winter Photo Contest! Anyone is eligible to submit photos. For photos to be considered they must showcase ANYTHING agriculture in the Winter months around Reporter Country. Photos of any livestock, farming, and ranching are highly encouraged. Email...
Tips for Combatting Winter Lice in Your Beef Cattle
For beef producers, lice present an ongoing problem for cattle, especially in winter and particularly in colder climates. Lice can rob cattle of valuable performance when it’s needed most, decreasing weight gain, and leaving cattle more susceptible to disease. While you may have treated for...
Angus Foundation hosts 150 Years of Angus Celebration
The Angus Foundation kicked off the year with a celebration commemorating 150 years since Angus cattle first arrived in the United States. The 150 Years of Angus celebration was held January 6 in Oklahoma City during Cattlemen’s Congress and raised nearly $20,000 to support the...
CattleFax Forecasts Producer Profitability in 2023 with Potential Drought Relief for the West
The popular CattleFax Outlook Seminar, held as part of the 2023 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in New Orleans, shared expert market and weather analysis. Prices and profitability will again favor cattle producers in 2023. The cattle industry is entering 2023 with the...
Wyoming 4-H’ers Recognized as Catch-A-Calf Champions at the 2023 National Western Stock Show
Wyoming 4-H members claimed top honors at the 2023 National Western Stock Show (NWSS) in Denver, Colorado, earning the titles Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion in the 2023 Catch-A-Calf exhibition this month. Rowan Wasinger, a member of Johnson County 4-H in Buffalo, Wyoming, claimed...
Producers and Consumers Urge Biden to Enforce Exec. Order Promoting Competition
Today {February 6}, over 2,000 family farmers, ranchers, and rural and urban consumers supported by Missouri Rural Crisis Center, Western Organization of Resource Councils, Dakota Rural Action, and the Northern Plains Resource Council delivered a petition calling on President Biden to deliver on his promise...
Montana Farm Bureau Federation Applauds Christy Clark’s Official Appointment as Director of the Montana Department of Agriculture
Appointed by Governor Gianforte in January of 2022, Christy Clark was officially confirmed by the Montana Senate on Thursday to serve as Director of the Montana Department of Agriculture (DOA). "I’ve known Christy as a friend and colleague for over 25 years,” Montana Farm Bureau...
Farmers Union Opposes Corporate Farming in North Dakota
North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU) opposes a bill that would significantly weaken the state’s corporate farming law. Having already been introduced and sent to the House Ag Committee, House Bill 1371 would remove swine, dairy, poultry, and cattle feeding from the definition of a farm...
Clark Confirmed by Senate Ag Committee, Bills Advancing, Foreign Land Ownership Issue in Montana and Calling on the Capitol
Week four of the 68th Montana Legislature is working to accomplish the peoples’ business and we saw many bills continue their journey this week. Here is what your grassroots policy supported this week: Longtime friend and member of Montana Farm Bureau (MFBF), Christy Clark, was...
LMA Applauds Bill to Allow Livestock Auction Investment in Small and Regional Packers
Livestock Marketing Association (LMA) applauded Congressmen Mark Alford (R-MO.), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA.), and Dusty Johnson (R-SD) for introducing the Amplifying Processing of Livestock in the United States (A-PLUS) Act. If enacted, the bill would remove an outdated regulatory barrier and allow livestock auction market owners...
2023 Winter Photo Contest!
Western Ag Reporter is launching our 1st annual Winter Photo Contest! Anyone is eligible to submit photos. For photos to be considered they must showcase ANYTHING agriculture in the Winter months around Reporter Country. Photos of any livestock, farming, and ranching are highly encouraged. Email...
ASI Elects New Leadership at Annual Convention
As he works through the transition process to step away from a daily role on his family’s fifth-generation ranch outside Casper, Wyoming, Brad Boner stepped into a new role during the American Sheep Industry (ASI) Association’s Annual Convention in Fort Worth, Texas. He will serve...
USDA Names Simon Liu as New ARS Administrator
USDA recently named Simon Liu, Ph.D., the Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). In this role, Liu will lead the agency in its efforts to leverage the latest advances in science and technology and develop innovative solutions to agricultural challenges facing the nation and...
Ben Peterson Named to Cattlemen’s Beef Board
Ben Peterson from Judith Gap, Montana has been appointed to the Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the appointment of 40 members, including Peterson, to the board, which is comprised of 101 members representing 34 States and five...
Former Presidential Agriculture Advisor Ray Starling to Keynote 2023 Stakeholders Summit
Outsider influence in food and farming is growing, and the animal agriculture community is often pitted against those claiming the food system is “broken.” Ray Starling, author and attorney, will consider why this seems to be the case and what we can do to safeguard...

Bill’s Warbag – Bull Dogging…
The first riding and roping contest I ever attended was given by Buffalo Bill Cody at North Platte, Nebraska, where I was born in 1876. It was the Fourth of July, 1882, and, according to all reports I have read, it was the first contest...

Banjo – What’s Mr. Fogairty Up To?
The ranch crew peeked around a tree, all of them, Cowsuela, Eweniece, Ben, and even Mrs. McBauck. “Should we knock?” Tuff asked. Banjo stared at the woodshop. The soft amber glow of the fire was inviting and even felt like it warmed their cold surroundings...

It’s the Pitts – Prey For Me
Working with animals like we do, we quickly learn that they can easily be divided into either prey or predator. Baby lambs, calves, and purse dogs are prey to predators like wolves, coyotes, and eight year old 4-H showmen. Antelope, horses, crippled bison, female joggers...

Agri-Kid of the Week – Kaylin Donnelly
Kaylin Donnelly always keeps a close eye on the cows and calves at Donnelly Farms in Farmington, Minnesota. She is the daughter of David and Kjersta Donnelly and niece of Western Ag Reporter's very own Will Bollum.

Cooking – Pre-Calving Injuries
I will have been retired for one month this week, and somehow retirement is not working out like I thought it would. Perhaps the reason is that I retired from the only job where I actually received a salary. My bosses at my other jobs...

Readers Opinion – Cowlandia – The Cattlemen’s Nightmare
Drovers never fails to meet expectations for nonsense. In an article in the Drovers Daily, written by Nevil Speer (January 3, 2023, aginfo@farmjournal.com) we are offered a vision of a place called “Cowlandia” where a “free trade” utopia for cattle producers is imperiled by “anti-globalists.”...