EPA Proposes Renewable Fuel Standards for 2023-2025

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The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program was created in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, grow the nation’s renewable fuels sector and reduce reliance on imported oil, based on required use of renewable fuels to satisfy Renewable Volume Obligations (RVO) – volumes of fuels of various categories that the liquid fuel industry were required […]

Wyoming Lands World’s Largest Vertical Farming Research Facility

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Wyoming Governor, Mark Gordon has announced a historic economic development investment, as the State Loan and Investment Board (SLIB) approved a grant to support the development of the world’s largest and most advanced vertical farming research center in Laramie, Wyoming. The project will support the retention and creation of nearly 200 high-paying jobs in the community. The company, Plenty Unlimited […]

Canada to be Held Responsible for USMCA Dispute

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The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) commended the recent announcement that the U.S. Trade Representative has formally moved to advance a U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) dispute settlement proceeding and establish a second panel to determine whether Canada has been in violation of its market access obligations under the agreement. Canada’s unwillingness to abide by […]

Ride Easy Pard – Lambing Time

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I was recently watching a few elk calves jump, and run, and bounce, and rear at each other as they played in a meadow where their mothers were grazing. While I was watching, I couldn’t help but think about lambing with Pops. I’m sure many readers have lambed and are familiar with what goes on, or at least went on, […]

Farm & Food

Farm & Food – U.S. Has the Muscle, Mexico Has the Law


If your best international customer – someone who accounts for 27 percent of your overseas sales – gave you three years to change the recipe of what it buys from you, it’s a safe bet you’d work together to meet their needs and deadline. Not Big Agbiz, however, which is pushing, pressing, and prodding the Biden Administration to squeeze Mexico, […]

Tucker Brown Named 2022 NCBA Advocate of the Year

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Tucker Brown, from Throckmorton, Texas, has been selected by NCBA as the 2022 Advocate of the Year. The award recognized Brown for his creative use of storytelling across social media platforms, along with continuing his family’s legacy as a sixth-generation cattle rancher. Well respected across the industry, Brown is active in his family’s operation, R.A. Brown Ranch and serves on […]

Cowgirl Nutrition – Road Weary Nutrition

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We’ve been planning this trip for months. Let the kids run the ranch for a few weeks while we escape to a warmer climate. We need a place to ride our horses and get out of the cold for a while. So, in howling winds and subzero temperatures, we packed our live-in trailer, loaded the horses, and slowly maneuvered through […]

Ramblings

Ramblins – Nothing to See Here

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In the ‘90s, the UK suffered 140 deaths from Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, aka BSE) possibly made worse by their taste for kidney pie. I worried that a single case of BSE in the U.S. could collapse our beef market and then on December 23, 2003, it happened. A downer, Holstein cow pinged positive for the BSE prion […]

Beef Labeling Legislation Proposed in Montana

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While it may be a new year, U.S. cattle producers have not forgotten about the battles they’ve been fighting to achieve a truly fair and competitive market in light of obvious market consolidation, depressed prices, and current labeling standards that are misleading to the consumer. At the federal level, the American Beef Labeling Act – recently reintroduced by Senators John […]

Black Hill Stock Show Horse Sale has Another Record Year

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Every year the Black Hills Stock Show (BHSS) kicks off the week with the Farm Credit Services of America Horse Sale. This year’s two-day horse sale was nothing but exceptional as a large crowd of spectators and buyers gathered in the James Kjerstad Event Center on the Central States Fairgrounds in Rapid City, South Dakota. Dani Herring, BHSS Livestock and […]