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.

The big chunk of land is mostly north of the Missouri River in north central Montana, one of the most remote parts of the country. It's a patchwork of privately-owned cattle ranches and land owned ...

More recently, Montana has seen a rush ... Little Belt, which raises and sells cattle and beef, encompasses land once divided among three smaller ranches in prime elk-hunting country.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...