The government shutdown continues into its second week, and one of the primary issues is contention over the proposed border wall. Immigration…
Author: Diane Charlton
Diane Charlton
Diane Charlton is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. She received her Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of California, Davis. She has done research on agricultural labor markets in Mexico and the United States along with researching the determinants of migration. She never tires of talking about agriculture with her sister and brother-in-law from their almond orchard in the Central Valley of California, and she is looking forward to learning more about and researching agricultural production in Montana and the northern Great Plains.
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I recently visited two Ag Worker Health & Services clinics to learn about health services available for farm workers…
Shortly after I moved to Bozeman I toured Root Cellar Foods, a processing and distribution facility for locally grown organic…
This month I attended a discussion on the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) at a workshop…
A couple weeks ago I visited a friend’s sheep ranch in western Idaho for Fourth of July. This ranch raises…