Incoming Fort Peck Community College President Craig Smith was welcomed at an inauguration ceremony July 9 at the Greet the Dawn Auditorium in Poplar. The FPCC board of directors hosted the event, which was emceed by Martel Reum. Smith was introduced by Reum, Adrianne Ricker, Fort Peck Tribal Court Chief Judge Stacie FourStar and TEB member Roxanne Gourneau. The speakers stressed their

Through new funding from the USDA and the Montana Department of Agriculture, a Montana State University scientist will study the impact of grasshoppers, an increasingly common pest in Montana, on pulse crops and forages. Hayes Goosey, assistant professor in the Department of Animal and Range Sciences in the College of Agriculture and an MSU Extension specialist, received roughly $330,000 through

Summer time means attending rodeos throughout the state, especially eastern Montana, for those families with agricultural backgrounds. In fact, for many of these families, participating in rodeos is a way of life. Some of the last names have become a tradition in area rodeos throughout the years. “If you know rodeo at all, you recognize family names,” announcer Robert Toavs said during