BLM Offers a $5,000 Reward for Information on Five Wild Horse Shootings

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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for shooting and mortally wounding five wild horses in mid-November 2021 in Jakes Valley, about 30 miles west of Ely, Nevada. “The agency investigates and prosecutes the killings of wild horses as part of the BLM’s enforcement […]

Scholarships Available to Help Producers Attend Cattle Industry Convention

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The 2023 Cattle Industry Convention & NCBA Trade Show is headed to the Big Easy, and funding is available to offset some costs for producers. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) offers various scholarships and grants to help producers attend CattleCon23, which will be held February 1-3, in New Orleans. “We want everyone to have the opportunity to attend the […]

Red Angus Cattle

AvA: Remember This Name: Rexanna Powers, Ph.D.

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The spring before I moved to College Station to begin my sophomore year of college, I met someone who changed my life forever. It wasn’t a guy (that didn’t happen until AFTER I graduated with my bachelor’s degree and dropped out of grad school); no, it was a girl, Rexanna Powers (Rex), someone who now is one of my greatest […]

Farm & Food

Farm & Food: ‘Funeral by Funeral, Theory Advances’

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In 1970, Paul Samuelson became the first American awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The honor came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist because he had “simply rewritten considerable parts of economic theory.” True that. Samuelson had already written what would become the best-selling college textbook on the subject, Economics, – now translated into 45 languages – […]

MOTHER LODE THEATRE

The Mission of the Butte Center for the Performing Arts is to inspire, educate, and entertain audiences by providing the finest venue, Mother Lode Theatre, for the performing arts and a wide range of excellent and artistically significant programs. Mother Lode Theatre strives to create a safe, welcoming environment at the theatre for its audiences, artists, volunteers, and staff. We […]

Jefferson County Montana

Jefferson County has something for everyone; from rivers for floating and fishing, to hiking and climbing in the Elkhorn Mountain range, and a large motorized and non-motorized trail system. Boulder, High Ore and Basin are home to several radon health mines, ghost towns, Boulder Hot Springs and Whitehall hosts Frontier Days every July. The county fair is held in Boulder in August. […]

Cowgirl Nutrition: Food for Thought

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We just got back from a week of watching our grandchildren and their peers show their animals at our county fair. Inside the ring and out, the caliber of these young kids in agriculture has given me renewed hope for our world. This oldster also learned a lot as I watched and listened to the encouragement and guidance passed on […]

Ramblings

Ramblins: Pressure

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Years back, my police officer friend told this tale at hunting camp, but unlike most imaginative campfire stories, this one might be true. It was the proverbial dark and stormy night when a young officer investigated a traffic accident where one car rear-ended another. The official report would have been a one-liner, but the roads were solid ice, but the […]

Wendy Auzqui Wins Big at the 2022 Calgary Stampede World Stock Dog Championship

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On the evening of July 14, the rain pounded down on the windshields of four fire trucks and a dozen vehicles in Ucross, Wyoming, as they all waited on one thing. Horns started blaring as the familiar car pulled into sight. Their hometown hero, Wendy Auzqui, was greeted with a celebratory convoy home as she pulled into the county after […]

Montana Food on Montana Plates

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Earlier this year, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) launched the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA) as part of the “Build Back Better” Initiative (authorized and funded under Section 1001(b)(4) in the American Rescue Plan Act (P.L. 117-2). This is a cooperative agreement that provides federal funding to state governments and federally […]