As I stood atop a rocky precipice in central Montana, the most striking thing before me was nothing. More precisely, it was space: the all-encompassing nothingness for which the West is famous.

A landowner can receive cash for protecting farmland from future subdivision or commercial development of the property.

Montana is one of five states that ban the manufacture and sale of lab-grown meat, and the state is aggressively enforcing its ban. Beef production is ...

His job includes riding on horseback to monitor cattle and wildlife ... worked on five different ranches around the state. Through this opportunity, he toured eastern Montana and learned to ...

Located in picturesque Big Sky, Montana ... horseback riding, cattle drives, mountain biking, whitewater rafting, trap shooting, and nature safaris. As far as luxury ranches go, the Lodge ...

ROUNDUP – The big mining companies first came knocking on Ellen Pfister’s door in the 1970s, ready to tap the huge coal deposits beneath her family’s eastern Montana ranch. Pfister and ...

Yet because the disease persists in wildlife in and around Yellowstone National Park, state officials say blood tests on up to 200 Montana cattle ranches could continue indefinitely. Most other ...

While many Montana ranchers sell their calves ... never leave the company’s hands. The cattle are raised by Old Salt’s four member ranches, slaughtered and processed at its meatpacking ...

Kebreab said that daily feeding of pasture-based cattle is more difficult than feedlot or dairy cows because they often graze far from ranches for long periods ... 10-week experiment at a ranch in ...

Tracing Montana’s cattle culture, from wild buffalo to grass-fed steak. As I stood atop a rocky precipice in central Montana, the most striking thing before me was nothing. More precisely, it ...