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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — “Strategies for Ranching on a Landscape with Wolves” is the topic of a seminar set for Feb. 26 and 27, at the Klamath County Fairgrounds, according to a news release.
Mont. to wrap beet processing soon
With the reopening of the federal government, water talks among the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” are scheduled to resume Tuesday and Wednesday in Medford at the Bureau of Land Management Office.
LOGAN, Utah — Cache Makers 4-H Club, in partnership with Utah State University Extension, will be hosting four diverse after-school programs promoting STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — in the month of February.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of two parts on the management of young calves for the small-scale hobbyist.
LARAMIE, Wyo. — After over a year of recording her expenses, writing letters to her sponsor and grooming him, Kara Reynolds and her calf, Bodie, were able to win grand champion as part of the Catch a Calf program with the National Western Stock Show late last month.
SWEETWATER COUNTY, Wyo. — A bill is being considered that would honor the past, present and future of Wyoming ranching.
Ranchers in standoff get grazing rights back
Mont. snowpack near average despite mild winter
BOZEMAN, Mont. —State wildlife officials are monitoring a pack of wolves that’s been hanging around Cooke City in recent weeks, following reports of wolves in town at night and the killing of a domestic dog.
LAKEVIEW, Ore. — The Lake County Horsemen’s Association celebrated their 2018 year-end accomplishments with a banquet and awards ceremony Jan. 6.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The economic impact of Cheyenne Frontier Days totaled $27.1 million in 2018, according to a new Dean Runyan Associates report. This is down from $28 million in direct visitor spending in 2015.
BELGRADE, Mont. — A project to commemorate a unique aspect of Belgrade’s past moved closer to reality this week when local resident Keith Mainwaring announced he has raised enough money to create an outdoor mural depicting the Belgrade Bull.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Since 2015, Amy Frye and Jacob Slosberg have been gradually adding to the land they farm at Viva Farms.
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SISTERS, Ore. — Marc Thalacker is living the pipeline dream, and he believes others can, too.
Mont. snowpack near average despite mild winter
Jackson County rancher Ted Birdseye is hoping an inflatable dancing tube man of used-car-lot fame will accomplish what nothing has so far — keeping OR-7’s Rogue Pack of gray wolves from killing his livestock.
BOZEMAN, Mont. —State wildlife officials are monitoring a pack of wolves that’s been hanging around Cooke City in recent weeks, following reports of wolves in town at night and the killing of a domestic dog.
LAKEVIEW, Ore. — The Lake County Horsemen’s Association celebrated their 2018 year-end accomplishments with a banquet and awards ceremony Jan. 6.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The economic impact of Cheyenne Frontier Days totaled $27.1 million in 2018, according to a new Dean Runyan Associates report. This is down from $28 million in direct visitor spending in 2015.
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Tribal and federal agriculture officials have reached an agreement that could allow five Yellowstone bison to be transported to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.
BELGRADE, Mont. — A project to commemorate a unique aspect of Belgrade’s past moved closer to reality this week when local resident Keith Mainwaring announced he has raised enough money to create an outdoor mural depicting the Belgrade Bull.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Since 2015, Amy Frye and Jacob Slosberg have been gradually adding to the land they farm at Viva Farms.
Orchard worker killed by wind blade
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Former executive director of Klamath Water Users Association Scott White recalls when he first started feeling the pressure associated with his job beginning to rise.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Last fall, it started as a group effort between two Klamath Falls Farmers Market product vendors: Ediblearth Farms and Violet Fae Remedies.
RENO, Nev. — The U.S. Forest Service has built a new corral for wild horses in Northern California, which could allow it to bypass federal restrictions and sell the animals for slaughter.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — In a Tuesday morning meeting, the Klamath County Wolf Depredation Advisory Committee discussed the October wolf killing of four calves in the Fort Klamath area.
LAS VEGAS — The head of the federal agency controlling the Colorado River said Dec. 13 the U.S. government will impose unprecedented restrictions on water supplies to the seven Southwestern U.S. states that depend on the river unless everyone agrees by Jan. 31 on a plan to deal with an expec…
LOGAN, Utah — Considering how involved high school agricultural teachers can get with hands-on education, it’s not surprising that the field can see a high rate of burnout. One teacher is hoping to help combat that trend locally with the help of a national program.
CORVALLIS, Ore. — For the third time in nine years, Jim Myers, Oregon State University plant breeder and horticulture professor, and five partners have received a $2 million grant to continue work on developing vegetable cultivars well-adapted to organic farming systems.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — A growing elk herd in the area has become a costly nuisance, particularly for farmers east of Sedro-Woolley.
ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Inside the Lazy Rafter S arena horses waited and flicked their tails, each breath exhaled from their nostrils produced a thick stream of fog. Men and women strode into the arena with coiled rope in hand, hitched their saddles and mounted their horses ready to partake in t…
LOGAN, Utah — Researchers are concerned about the effects the reduced Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument boundaries might have on the diverse bee population found in the area.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Environmental groups in Oregon announced Monday they have withdrawn from talks on how to manage the state’s rebounding wolf population because of what they called a “broken” process, and concerns that state wildlife officials want to make it easier to kill wolves that prey o…
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Snow arrived early in some parts of Montana, but it didn’t keep coming. And, what snow that did come decided to skip the southern portions of some southwestern Montana river drainages.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — A new Biological Assessment released this week by Bureau of Reclamation aims to help other federal agencies create a 2019 Biological Opinion that guides how to protect ESA-listed species in the Klamath Basin while also providing more certainty for On-Project irrigators …
Low prices have hit the dairy industry hard. The farms in Amsterdam and Churchill are no exception.
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ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — Some say a proposed bill to increase fines for animal cruelty is a step in the right direction while others say it is not enough.
Gray wolf OR-7’s Rogue Pack has killed another cow at a northeastern Jackson County ranch, marking the seventh confirmed livestock kill attributed to the pack since late October, authorities said.
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BURLINGTON, Wash. — Pounding hooves could be heard at Butlerhill Equestrian Center as eight horses trotted Saturday toward a massive bouncy ball during a game of horse soccer.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — A proposed solar project could be developed on 94 acres of high-value farmland east of Klamath Community College and south of Olene.
MERIDIAN — The United Dairy Industry Association's board of directors elected John Brubaker, owner of Knott Run Dairy in Buhl, treasurer at the national dairy industry's recent annual meeting in Phoenix.
Gang terrorized Calif. farm town
Another year is coming to an end and once again it’s time to recap the year in eastern Idaho agriculture.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Skagit County debuted a process Monday that makes it possible for all rural residents to have access to well water.
SALEM, Ore. — Concerns about pesticide drift are nothing new in agriculture, but the issue has taken on new gravity for Oregon farmers with marijuana-growing neighbors.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — The Klamath Project Drought Response Agency announced Dec. 14 that the agency has approximately $9.2 million in the bank for disbursement to qualified applicants due to this past summer’s drought.
GARLAND CITY, Utah — In the height of Garland City’s industrial period in the 1900s, 57 businesses called Garland City home and the construction of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. in 1903 was one of the most impactful businesses for the city at the time.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Klamath River stakeholders from the headwaters in Oregon to where it flows into the Pacific Ocean in Northern California gathered last week in Medford seeking common ground on solutions to water usage, among other topics.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Hemp is about to get the nod from the federal government that marijuana, its cannabis plant cousin, craves.
ELLENSBURG, Wash. — People wearing cowboy boots and cowboy hats circled Second Harvest’s food truck to pass out food to families during the annual Second Harvest and beef distribution at the Washington Cattlemen’s Association office in Ellensburg.