Agriculture

I always enjoy talking to my conservative friend, Jim Anderson, from Grizzly Sports down in Choteau on Monday mornings. This Monday around as quarter to 7, Jim's going to give his opinion on the Heritage Act. The Grizzly Sports proprietor and GREAT Montana outdoors man, says he flat against the Heritage act because there is no appropriation for weed control and it allows the Secretary of Agricultu

No, it's not that old Charley Pride tune, it's a "snake report" that I received this morning (Thursday) here at the Puffman Blog desk. Tony, the infamous Snake Man and his wife were out at the dens last Sunday on the Gollehon place east of Brady, out there on Hell's Gulch Road...

I was at the Heritage Center last evening (Tuesday) reading "Montana History" and we are fast approaching the end of "The Place Of Belonging", Jayne Pearson Faulkner's true life story of growing up with no father in 1940's Great Falls and then moving to a Conrad area farm (15 miles out of Conrad) when her mom marries into a longtime Conrad area farming family (Gundersons)... Re

Berry Boy-In the Buffalo Days" is the name of the book and the book's author, Kathleen A. Connelly Kipp, is joining me this afternoon (Wednesday) at 4:35 on the Puffman Show. Kathleen, an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe, resides on a working cattle ranch north of Browning and she'll be one of the featured performers/story tellers this weekend at the 18th Annual Montana Storytelling Rou

At least on Tuesday evenings from 6 to 7...that's when I'm reading Montana History at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. The book we're all enjoying these days centers around a young girl, growing up in Great Falls and Conrad in the early 1940's as she tries to find "her place of belonging"...

The 18th Annual Montana Storytelling Roundup kicks off next Friday (April 27th) in Cut Bank and the entertainment slate this year looks better than ever. As I blogged earlier this week, on Monday, I'll be talking with the monastic composer/song writer Aleka...

Our 30th Annual KSEN/K 96 Radio Auction kicked off at 9 this morning (Thursday) and there's excitement in the air and ON the air. I've had a chance to look over many of the auction items and the selection and quality is better than ever this year...

On Monday's (April 16) Extension Minute, Toole Co Agent Alice Burchak shared the following information about a beekeeping workshop the MSU Extension Service will be hosting in Cut Bank on Saturday, April 28: Honey bees pollinate a third of the food that we eat. However, in the past six years the annual die-off of honeybees has become increasingly alarming. The phenomenon is known as colony collap

It is estimated by one of the chemical companies that approximately 1 million acres in Montana didn’t get sprayed for cheatgrass last fall due to the dry conditions. This poses a significant challenge this spring, disease-wise. Here is some info on Rhizoctonia root rot (bare patch) - this disease may be exacerbated by herbicides and immediate planting...

I'm keeping an eye on this year's coming crop and received a report this morning from some folks within 40 miles of Woodward, Oklahoma and they tell me that some twisters hit their area with a vengeance over the weekend. Even further south in the Vernon/Harrold, Texas area, the rust is looking rather severe on some of the crops...

Montana's Congressman, Denny Rehberg, will hold a listening session in Choteau on April 21st at 2:30 pm at the Choteau Country Club to discuss the implications of the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act. All Members of the public and the media are invited to come and voice their opinions and hear those of others...