ag appreciation

Thanks in part to a grant from the Montana Research and Economic Development Initiative, Montana State Researchers are looking at ways to improve efficiency and revenues on Montana's farm and ranch lands by utilizing pulse and cover crops as well as precision agriculture techniques...

Farming has been innovated at several different points and places in human past. Succeeding step-changes in human farming techniques were prompted by the British Agricultural Revolution in the eighteenth century, and the Green Revolution of the second half of the twentieth...

Each year, Slivka Grain & Ag with the help of L. Petersen Farms custom harvesting crew are faced with the task of harvesting wheat and barley, some of which is against 1,000 foot cliffs, to help deliver food to your table.

Our own Griff Bye on cover crops:

In 1890, Mark Jackson’s great-great-great-grandfather bought a plot of land in southern Iowa. Five generations later, Mark is still farming that same land but using some very different techniques. In this moving story that crosses generations, Mark shows us both how radically agriculture has changed since that time, and how some things have stayed exactly the same...

Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will affect food production in the future. Scientists say farmers and ranchers will have to deal with increasing temperatures that can alter crop cycles, droughts, threats of wildfire, and even the production of hydroelectric power for farming needs...

Pamela Ronald studies the genes that make plants more resistant to disease and stress. In an eye-opening talk, she describes her decade-long quest to isolate a gene that allows rice to survive prolonged flooding. She shows how the genetic improvement of seeds saved the Hawaiian papaya crop in the 1990s — and makes the case that modern genetics is sometimes the most effective method to advance sust

February is flying by and March means Agriculture Appreciation Month for us. I come from a family that includes several farmers and ranchers - I work at the radio station, so I haven't grown any food lately, but I'm interested and I'm grateful...