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Facts about Montana’s Individual Income Tax
Montana residents file a state tax return each year reporting various income sources, deductions and…
China is still important to Montana and U.S. agriculture
With the ongoing saga regarding the China-US trade dispute, it’s easy to get consumed with…
Changing Livestock Operation Sizes
In my last post, I took a first look at the 2017 Census of Ag…
Montana and the 2018 farm bill
Well, it’s farm bill time again. While legislation was passed late last year, many of…
2019 Edition: Consequences of Using Domestic Policies to Offset Retaliatory Tariff Losses to US Farmers
In July 2018, I wrote a post about the consequences of using the Marketing Facilitation…
Value-Added and Direct-to-Consumer Sales: Montana Highlights from the 2017 Agricultural Census
The results of the 2017 USDA Ag Census were released last week. (Both Anton and…
More Big Farms, Fewer Small Farms? Depends on Where You Live
After over a year in waiting, results of the 2017 Census of Agriculture were finally…
To Pea or Not to Pea? That Is the 2019 Planting Question
If Hamlet had been a farmer in 2019, perhaps he would also struggle with making…
Pulse Crop Prices Dropped by 30-50%. Are Pulses Being Replaced by Wheat in Montana ?
The 2018/19 marketing year has been a rough one for U.S. pulse crop producers. Relative…
New Tool for Tracking Wheat Prices and Basis: msuextension.org/basis
Note: This post also appears in the latest issue of Lives and Landscapes. The MSU…