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Agriculture

Resources and information related to farming, livestock management, sustainable agricultural practices, technologies, and industry trends.

Agriculture

Helping Farmers and Ranchers in Need

Farmers and Ranchers working to recover from Hurricane Helene need help. Here are a few places to consider donating.

Oct 4, 2024

Lifestyle

Farm Athletes opens doors for college athletes with ag roots

Farm Athletes seeks to alleviate the financial burden that student-athletes face, empowering them to succeed both academically and athletically while maintaining a connection to their agricultural roots.

Sep 10, 2024

Yellowstone River flows through Paradise Valley, MT

Agriculture

Montana Outdoors - Landowner Appreciation

Agriculture's contributions to wildlife habitat are extensive —rotational grazing that keeps grasslands healthy, wetlands protected from unnecessary drainage, prairie lands left unplowed, and residual grain and alfalfa that help sustain wildlife through the winter and that includes fish habitat through conservation efforts.

Sep 10, 2024

Agriculture

Fencing for Wildlife Corridors

Fences can strengthen our livelihood, keep livestock in - or out, alert potential trespassers to a property boundary, and can be used as decoration, privacy, and more. We build them; we're thankful for them, repair them, and curse them (usually simultaneously).

Apr 15, 2024

Agriculture

Exploring and Celebrating the World of Agriculture

Join us in celebrating and honoring those who devote their livelihoods to the agricultural industry and the future of tomorrow. National Ag Day helps educate and celebrate the efforts of those in the industry who affect our daily lives through the clothes we wear, the food we eat, and the renewable resources we consume.

Mar 15, 2024

Agriculture

The Folks at Farm Progress Talk Soil Health

Though the soil health principles — soil cover, limited disturbance, diversity, living roots, integrated livestock, context — are the same for everyone, each producer needs to figure out how they can be best implemented into their practices.

Jul 14, 2023

Agriculture

Noble Research Institute offers advice on Prescribed Burns

Implementing strategic burns over the course of many years, including some during the summer growing season, should pay diverse dividends in both forage and soil health.

Jul 10, 2023

Agriculture

Curious About Carbon?

Increasing dialogue is driving a new query and focus among land buyers and landowners around carbon, climate, and regenerative methods in natural resource-based businesses today. There is a major push across private industry and the public sectors to provide a path forward that incentivizes landowners to both lower emissions and sequester carbon.

Mar 8, 2023

Agriculture

Grazing for Habitat

It is important to manage all land types in a way that benefits both the agricultural operation as well as the wildlife and habitat. Though this seems like a simple objective, it isn’t always an easy one.

Feb 14, 2023

What's Old is New Again

Many conversations miss how different the implementations of these practices can look from state to state, region to region, and from one valley to the next. One size does not fit all when implementing a regenerative strategy. Our Management team will help you navigate these hurdles, establish a benchmark, run the numbers, and help discover a sound, profit-oriented operation.

Maximizing the Value of Timber Income on Your Property

When owning timber-producing land, one of the most important considerations you can make is how to maximize the income that it generates. There are a wide variety of factors that can influence the health, value, and sustainability of your forest.

Nov 26, 2021

Qualification for Agriculture and Wildlife Use Appraisal in Texas

Owning your own piece of land in the state of Texas has its benefits and can be very rewarding. With 97 percent of the state privately owned and managed, landowners have made use of their property in a number of different ways through agriculture production and proper wildlife management.

Nov 19, 2021