At a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources hearing, U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) urged Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to listen to the science of her own agency officials, delist the grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) and the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE), and return management back to the state of Montana. “While these two recovered populations […]
Agri-Kid of the Week
Six-year-old Alex Baumgartner, of Baumgartner Acres in Eaton, Colorado, said “my animals mean a lot to me. When I grow up, I kind of want to be a rancher and work at Target, so I can buy toys all the time.”
Depressing Drought
All my life I have heard stories about 1936. That was the summer my Great Grandfather Roberts stopped eating because he could not deal with the drought and Great Depression any longer. They had tried to winter their cows on slough grass hay from South Dakota, which they had purchased for a king’s ransom with all their savings, but the […]
Feedlot Cattle Price and Volume Comparison
Feedlot cattle trades for the week ending July 31 were mostly steady to $1 higher, but some were up to $3 higher. The cash sales volume was slightly lower than the previous week. The Five-area formula sales volume totaled 229,044 head, compared to about 245,000 the previous week. The Five-area total cash steer and heifer volume was 64,164 head, compared […]