Register for the upcoming Soil Health Workshops held January 14-18 in Great Falls, Three Forks, Billings, Forsyth, and Sidney. Online registration is open. Get early bird pricing now!

The Montana Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI) is accepting applications for mini-grants and demonstration projects for 2019.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today the appointment of Matthew J. “Matt” Lohr to serve as Chief of the USDA’s NRCS. Lohr will provide leadership for NRCS and its mission to support America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners in their voluntary conservation efforts.

Agricultural producers in Big Horn, Carbon, and Yellowstone counties have until Jan. 18, 2019, to apply for financial assistance for conservation practices funded through the NRCS Regional Conservation Partnership Program.

Montana State University researchers compared insect communities in grazed, rested, and idled pastures and found the types of insects that provide a critical food source for sage grouse chicks and other shrub and grassland birds were 13 percent more prevalent on managed and rested rangelands.