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By Heidi LePard, Great Falls Clinic Infection Preventionist Baby animals are undeniable adorable! Who wouldn’t want to snuggle a newborn kitten, puppy, or even baby goat? They are all so cute and [...]

When Jayton Ophus was four years old, he told his parents he wanted chickens. He got them all right – and much, much more. “We wanted to teach him responsibility,” says Jayton’s mother, Mary [...]

Article and Photo by J.B. Chandler Both deer and elk are popular big-game animals hunted here in Montana. There are two different seasons in the fall, one for archery and the other for rifle [...]

Two trailers head east from Great Falls to Winnett carrying hay donated by Mike and Connie Brumble. The individuals involved in loading, transporting, and unloading are Tate Switzer, Chet Wright, [...]

By Bruce Thomas The stakes have never been higher to create VALUE and EFFICIENCY throughout the production system. In the past decade, Hereford has documented dramatic improvements in calving [...]

By Kent Hanawalt A familiar sight on Montana’s highways in the fall is the “Pot” – a possum-bellied double deck semi-trailer hauling cattle. Also known as a “bull-rig,” there are thousands of [...]

“Helping farms be sustainable and profitable is our mission,” says Collin Watters, Executive Vice President of the Montana Wheat and Barley Committee (MWBC). Since 1967, MWBC has pooled farmers’ [...]

By M. Johnston Jerry Zieg, Vice President of Exploration for Tintina Resources, cuts an interesting figure full of all kinds of contradictions that the Black Butte Copper project has come to [...]

Flyers for Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park promote it as “a colorful underground wonderland built by water, limestone, and time.” While its namesake explorers never ventured inside, the [...]

By Brad Reynolds As with many American customs, the backyard cookout began as an amalgam of various cultural traditions. In the 1950s, citizens of the United States were doing a lot of [...]