Indictment: Ranch couple faces criminal charges over federal property boundary
Charles and Heather Maude, a western South Dakota farm and ranch couple, have been indicted for theft of federal property. The summons, served June 24, 2024, charged that the Maudes, “Beginning at a time unknown,...
Trial by Fire: Ranching communities come together to protect homes and livestock
This summer’s lack of rain has presented ranchers on the Northern Great Plains with multiple challenges. Many are hauling water to make up for dry stock dams and most are watching the sky for signs...
Montana: Property Tax Rebate Notice
HELENA – The Montana Department of Revenue (DOR) will soon be distributing its second round of property tax rebates to eligible Montana taxpayers as part of a property tax relief package signed into law by Governor...
Marketing beef: North Dakota man hopes to buy company formerly named Agridime and continue selling quality meat
A North Dakota man plans to buy what was once Agridime, a Texas-based meat company that was allegedly operating as a Ponzi scheme under the previous owners. After the US Securities and Exchange Commission determined...
Governor Gianforte, Governor Gordon Celebrate Successful Grizzly Bear Translocations
HELENA, Mont. – Montana Governor Greg Gianforte and Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon today announced the recent successful translocation of two grizzly bears from the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE) in Montana to the Greater Yellowstone...
USDA calls for tracking animals from birth to slaughter
Tucked away on the disease traceability tab, in a June update to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) website, the agency says twice that it is working on...
Varilek’s Cattle Call: Wild week
That was too wild of a week for most cattle produces. With larger daily limits on the futures, your bottom line was changing by the second with cattle values plummeting as much as $9.25/ cwt...
Karen Schwaller: Fire in the Hole
I don’t know many farmers or ranchers who don’t have a designated place where they burn things—from branch piles to deconstructed outbuildings, to dead or uprooted trees, to fences, seed and feed bags, previously-living beings,...
Dakotas earn both National High School Rodeo Association horse of the year honors
Wagoner Wins 2024 AQHA Horse of the Year Award in the NHSRA Zoey Wagoner rides a stolen horse – she stole it from her mother! The 2024 National High School Rodeo Association Girls’ American Quarter...
Comeback Kid: Nelson Rides Broncs Again
It was nearly two and a half years since Taylen Nelson crawled onto a bucking horse. His first two horses back were at the Buck & Ball on New Years Eve, 2022. The first horse...
BRISKET DISEASE: Research Continues
It goes by several names, but the outcome is the same in every instance: it’s fatal. Bovine congestive heart failure, bovine pulmonary hypertension (right heart failure) and brisket disease are one and the same. It’s...