Articles with the Tag: Agriculture
MISSOULA – Crowdfunded loans are the newest thing growing in Montana. “There are ways to make your dreams a reality,” according to Annie Heuscher, program director for the Community Food and Agriculture Coalition. On Thursday, Jan. 26, all three of the farms that presented at the nati...
MISSOULA — The 2017 Western Montana Grazing and Agriculture Conference, hosted by the Lake County Conservation District, will take place Feb. 9-10 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Missoula. Livestock and crop producers as well as natural resource professionals and educators from across Montana will converge ...
Mid-January marks the beginning of the 4-H market beef project for Lake County members who have elected to raise and care for a steer during the next seven months. Calf weights are recorded along with breeder information, and growth rates will be measured this July in time for the Lake County Fair. This p...
News from Community Food & Agriculture Coalition MISSOULA — On Jan. 26, Missoula will host the nation’s first ever Kiva Pitchfest, an event to launch three crowdfunded loans to Western Montana farmers. Each farmer will make a short pitch of their business and their loan, and comm...
News from the Montana Department of Revenue HELENA — The Montana Department of Revenue mailed livestock reporting forms last week to Montanans who own livestock and need to meet upcoming reporting and payment deadlines. About 18,500 livestock owners who reported last year will receive reporting...
POLSON — Premiere the screening of “A Culture of Health: Farm to Hospital in Montana” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21 at the Showboat Cinemas in Polson during the Flathead Lake International Cinemafest, commonly called FLIC. The film celebrates local chefs, farmers, processors, and distribut...
This is the time to plan your 2017 garden. Seed racks will be in garden stores soon. Nowadays there are several companies selling organically grown seeds, some of them grown right here in the Flathead area. January is an excellent time to test the germination rate on your saved seeds. You can get a rough est...
Last season, in western Oregon, I grew several heirloom cucumbers. All of the ones I grew are open pollinated, so seed can be saved and planted next year. The first of my cucumbers to ripen was “Boothby’s Blond,” a variety handed down through generations by the Boothby family living in...
It is an interesting fact that some of our most popular vegetables are from the North and South American continents. These include beans, corn (maize), squash, sunflowers, amaranth, chili peppers, tomatoes, tomatillos and quinoa. All are plants originally found in the wild, brought into cultivation by Native...
Throughout Lake County many landowners are reporting damage to range, pasture and lawns by rodents of various types. Conditions have been favorable to the increase in populations of voles, pocket gophers and Columbian ground squirrels. Each species can be identified by the damage they cause. Voles, also c...
