Agriculture

The Pondera County Commissioners will be sponsoring an informational meeting that will provide local landowners who have water on their property with some tools they need to help make a more informed decision on selling their water and the required process and rules to follow to legally sell water to oil and gas developers along with others who may need water to do business...

The Japanese summer inbound exchange is for Montana families who have kids within two years of age as the delegate they host. The delegates are ages 12-16 and are affiliated with two Japanese youth organizations, Labo and LEX. Accompanied by chaperones, they come to Montana for approximately four weeks, from July 22-August 18...

There's a car wash coming up tomorrow (Saturday) here in Shelby. The Steppin' Up 4-H club is holding the wash from 10 until 2 tomorrow at the turnaround on Main Street right across from the Wells Fargo Bank. I've blogged before about what a great organization the 4-H is, and as I've said before, the 4-H youth are truly OUR future...

Landowners that are considering selling water that they have on their property for oil and gas development or other business use  will want to attend a very informative workshop scheduled for Wednesday, May 23 at 1 pm at the Pondera Center in Conrad...

Havre First Presbyterian Church Pastor John Bruington, will be joining me this afternoon (Monday) at 4:35 on the Puffman Show to talk some "horse sense" and also sharesome of his recently published book, "Out Our Way: Theology Under the Saddle"...

Some of the custom cutters might as well be singing that 70's Al Stewart tune, "On The Border". They're "waiting at the border" to head south to Vernon/Harrold, Texas. The equipment and crew are ready, the crops in Texas are ready (& have been since May 5th!), ...

I got a comment on one of my Puffman Blogs the other day. It was to the effect: "Puffman, I read your blogs. You ought to be on the stage...the next STAGE out of town". Speaking of "those kinds of stages"...there's quite the day this Saturday down in Dupuyer...

Arbor Day comes from the Latin "ar bor", meaning tree. It originated in Nebraska City, Nebraska by Sterling Morton. The very first Arbor Day was held back in 1872 on April 10th, and it's said that one million trees were planted on that day. There's something neat for Arbor Day on tap this Wednesday (5/9) in Cut Bank at City Hall...

Dr Mary Burrows of the MSU Extension Service has issued an Ag Alert after receiving several samples exhibiting wheat streak mosaic from the Golden Triangle.  Read her full report HERE.

Libraries are something that we are all blessed with as Americans, and here in Shelby, we are most fortunate to have the services of the Toole County Library. Sometimes I like to say that the library building is "the building with the most stories in town"...

I'm returning to the Marias Heritage Center at 6 tonight (Tuesday) to read more Montana History. This evening, we'll be closing the curtain on "The Place Of Belonging" by former Montanan, former Great Falls and Conrad area resident, Jayne Pearson Faulkner...

For many Montanans, May means it's time to get down to some serious gardening. Before you stock up on soil boosters, fertilizers and pesticides, take a few minutes to read the latest Ag Alert from MSU Extension Pesticide Education Specialist Cecil Tharp: