agriculture

The $59 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program was the largest in the university’s history.

The dollars helped schools and food banks buy from small farmers, boosting the local food system.

A bill seeking to change automatic classification of large tracts of land as agricultural land failed in the House on Thursday afternoon.

The measure would shield manufacturers, marketers, dealers, distributors, retailers and sellers from liability if a pesticide is labeled with a safety warning.

In his first month in office, President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders to pause or cancel federal funding on a range of programs and grants — some of which go directly to farmers.

The third attempt at giving Montana farmers and ranchers the right to repair their agricultural equipment outside of dealerships hit the House Business and Labor committee Thursday

Montana Legislators are pitching a tightrope of a bill in hopes of closing a loophole for large “unqualified” landowners who benefit from the lower agricultural property tax rate.

Under Donald Trump’s proposed tariff and immigration policies, Idaho’s dairy industry — the state’s largest agricultural sector — could face higher costs and trade disruptions.

Trump’s 2018 tariffs are among the developments that undercut state’s apple market, devastating small farmers.

Immigrants make up about two-thirds of the nation’s crop farmworkers, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, and roughly 2 in 5 of them are not legally authorized to work in the United States.