One of the premier benefits of Montana Farm Bureau Federation (MFBF) membership is the direct line it provides to the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and key decision-makers in Washington, D.C. During the week of Dec. 15, MFBF President Cyndi Johnson, Executive Vice President Scott Kulbeck and Senior Director of Governmental Affairs Nicole Rolf traveled to the capital to ensure Montana’s

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has “assumed jurisdiction” of three American Prairie grazing rights cases, according to a memo obtained by the Western Ag Network. The three cases deal with bison grazing on federal land in Phillips County. The appeals had previously been handled by the Bureau of Land Management and have been in that process for more than three years. In September,