Ranching

If you drive through Montana’s Paradise Valley this time of year you’ll likely see elk in their winter range. A new fund will help offset the cost ranchers who provide elk habitat could accrue if their herd contracts brucellosis.

No matter who you talk to, a conversation about wolves tends to be a conversation charged with emotion, and oftentimes controversy. But a new podcast dives headfirst into what the hosts are calling the radical center.

Retail beef prices are at record highs, but cattle ranchers say those profits aren’t trickling down to them. While some are giving up, others are trying to hold on in the face of stagnating cattle prices and industry consolidation.

It takes speed, stamina and livestock savvy when it comes to auctioning cattle. And Steve Goedert is one of the best in the country.

Montana’s congressional delegation is asking the Biden administration to help farmers deal with extreme drought conditions as the state heats up....

More than a half dozen wildlife bills have been signed into law, all with a similar vision for Montana: they suggest that there are too many predators on the landscape — and that numbers of animals like wolves and grizzly bears need to be reduced. Now, questions are proliferating over the future of predators in Montana. How that future looks lies at the intersection of law, values, and living with those species on the ground.

Montana officials are butting heads over the future of the national mammal. At stake is whether bison should be treated as livestock or as wildlife. New...

Sagebrush grasslands in southwest Montana have been disappearing for decades, putting ranchers and wildlife in jeopardy. A project is aiming to reverse…

While economists warn of potential meat shortages in grocery stores this month, livestock producers are struggling to find ways of getting their animals…

Ranching can be an isolating profession in a good year. But the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the few staples of social contact women ranchers rely…