Category: montana stockgrow

  • Split State Concern

    <a href="http://www.theprairiestar.com/articles/2007/10/26/ag_news/local_and_regional_news/local10.txt">Ranchers voice concerns over proposed split-state status</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Montana cattlemen have a choice to make – to pursue a split-state status in the case of another brucellosis outbreak around the Yellow-stone National Park – or not.<br />n<br />n“The governor is leaving it up to the cattle industry,” said Jan French, Board of Livestock member…

  • Support

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/03/news/state/90-legiconfirm.txt">This just shows</a> how <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> and the state's Democrats do not support the largest segment of the agricultural industry in Montana, cattle production. I guess the goal is to drive all cattle producers out of Montana if the weather doesn't do it first. For the record I am not a member…

  • More Opposition

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/19/news/state/43-bison-livestockgroup.txt">Livestock groups turn up opposition to Schweitzer's bison plans</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Two of the state's largest livestock groups are turning up their opposition to <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>'s proposals regarding the management of bison that leave Yellowstone National Park each year.<br />n<br />nThe Montana Farm Bureau issued a new study that maintains the threat of…