The stalemate over the current farm bill may be solidifying a new era in farm politics as it joins the last three farm bills in a trend of delays and partisan division — a contrast from the legislation’s history of bipartisanship. Every five years, Congress is tasked with drafting a new federal farm bill. The omnibus law that began 90 years ago as various kinds of payments to support farmers

As a direct result of his bipartisan infrastructure law, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has secured $22,985,000 for the Montana Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, which will work to improve infrastructure for clean drinking water across Montana. This funding comes from Tester’s bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Tester worked with five Republicans and four Democrats to negotiate

It is highly beneficial for senior citizens to remain socially active when they retire this has been proven in countless studies and is really common sense. We have all heard the stories of how “So and so retired and died right away.” For many of us our careers were our focal point for our social interactions and the only way we got out of our chair and out of the house. COVID- 19 changed

A lawsuit filed last week by the American Farm Bureau Federation and 11 other groups challenges the lawfulness of the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, which threatens the future of ranching in the U.S. by destabilizing a decades-old tradition of grazing on federal lands. Gary Heibertshausen, a sheep rancher in Montana and Farm Bureau member, says access to public lands for livestock