Montana’s bears are waking up from hibernation and the bulls are relishing a job well done as calving is in full swing. This year the bears and bulls joined hands in the head-scratching 2023 USDA prospective planting report. Not much change in the planting front for the treasure state.
Author: United States Department of Agriculture Contributions: Sam Anderson For the first time in two years, Montana is not in an extreme drought ! March 9th 2021 was the last
Taeyoung Grain Terminal’s CEO took time from his busy schedule March 8, 2023, to meet with U.S. farmers from Idaho, Montana and Nebraska and explain what happens when a shipment of imported U.S. wheat arrives in South Korea.
A team of farmers and state wheat commissioners is in the initial stages of a visit to three crucial Asian markets to represent the U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) Board of Directors, meet with customers of U.S. wheat and learn about changing consumer trends.
AGRICULTURAL SUMMARY: The month of February brought below zero temperatures and snowy weather with varying
precipitation totals to the State of Montana, according to the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics
Service, USDA.
As the South Korean food industry is exploring the possibility of developing new products using U.S. barley containing beta-glucan, the U.S. Grains Council (USGC) is ready to offer educational opportunities to help the industry better understand the qualities of the U.S. commodity.
Farmers and ranchers in the Mountain Region states of Arizona, Colorado,
Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming still have time to be counted in the 2022 Census of Agriculture, according to
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
The Ag Development & Marketing Bureau at the Montana Department of Agriculture focuses on expanding market opportunities for Montana farmers. Marketing Officer Weston Merrill recently led a team of South American buyers searching for high quality chickpeas, lentils, green peas, durum, wheat, and barley.
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