AgribusinessMontana lifts dyed-fuel enforcement for farm and timber trucks for 45 days
An executive order lets commercial vehicles hauling farm goods, livestock feed and timber in Montana run without dyed-fuel penalties until 23 November 2026.
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LivestockA Montana ranch family looks beyond its children for a young partner with a stake
With his three children settled in other careers, Roundup rancher Bill Milton is looking for a young outsider to help run the family ranch and earn equity in it, an approach he says agriculture needs more widely.
LivestockMontana Angus Tour draws breeders from 18 states and a dozen countries as cattle prices stay high
The 52nd tour on the Hi-Line showed contrasting breeding philosophies, a $2,700 average for a 600-pound steer and ranchers still culling heifers because of drought.
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Montana confirms avian influenza in a Ravalli County flock, its second detection of 2026
The Montana Department of Livestock confirmed HPAI on 17 September in a small commercial chicken flock, the state's first since January; with autumn migration raising the risk from wild waterfowl, the department urges owners to house birds, tighten biosecurity, check flocks twice a day and report su
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Montana Stockgrowers move to join the court fight over American Prairie's bison
MSGA and the South Phillips Grazing Districts have asked to intervene in American Prairie Foundation v. Department of the Interior, which challenges the BLM's May finding that the group's 900-plus bison are conservation animals rather than production livestock under the Taylor Grazing Act; a 4 Septe