By Wendy Becker MSU Extension Roosevelt County Have you ever shopped at the grocery store or convenience store and really looked at your food, not just the food itself but the food labels and what they mean? Sometimes it feels like a foreign language! Maybe you have a recent health condition that requires you to read labels more carefully. Maybe you have a grandparent who needs a “low-fat”

Every May, the eastern Montana town of Miles City goes from a population of 8,000 people to over 20,000, all there to attend the Miles City Bucking Horse Sale, a weekend that has become equal parts rodeo, reunion and proving ground for some of the country’s top bucking stock. What began in 1951 as a local horse sale has grown into one of the largest events of its kind in the West, drawing stock

Culbertson Mayor Todd Gabriel prepares cheeseburgers for the concession stand during the girls’ softball games in Culbertson on May 27. (Photo by Bill Vander Weele)

Melrose rancher J.M. Peck, who serves as Montana Farm Bureau District 2 Director, expresses his thoughts during the Common Ground Coalition regional summit in Reno, NV. Photo courtesy of Montana Farm Bureau Federation J.M. Peck, a cattle rancher from Melrose and District 2 director for the Montana Farm Bureau Federation, recently returned from Reno, Nevada, where he joined a select group of