Northern Ag Network

10/30/2025

The Montana State Football Celebrate Ag game is next week and thanks to Helena Agri-Enterprises you've still got a chance to win some tickets!

10/30/2025

U.S. Cattle industry on the rebound, but concerns still remain for the future. Jenna Stanton, Director of Policy and Public Affairs for the U.S. Cattlemen's Association shares more.

10/29/2025

The Marias River Livestock Association says it is deeply concerned by recent proposals to intervene in domestic beef pricing and expand imports.

The Marias River Livestock Association says it is deeply concerned by recent proposals to intervene in domestic beef pricing and expand imports. The group says

10/29/2025

At the AgWest Farm Credit Ag Outlook Conference in Billings, Ag Economist Dave Kohl discussed megatrends in agriculture and offered some advice to help producers manage through volatile markets.

10/28/2025

Montana Wheat and Barley Committee District 4 Director Lee Dahlman recently joined nearly a dozen ag groups and leaders on trade mission to several Pacific Rim countries. Dahlman recaps everything from the importance of raising high quality products to his experience of trying horse meat with the group.

10/27/2025

Weekend trade agreements with Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand in addition to a framework agreement for a U.S.-China trade deal have sent grain futures sharply higher.

Soybean farmers were among those on Sunday praising a trade framework announced by U.S. and Chinese leaders that could end China's freeze on buying U.S. agricul

10/27/2025

The feeder cattle futures dropped $30 in a week after President Trump fired back at ranchers over their objection to increasing beef imports from Argentina. It's an uncertain for the market but prices remain historically high.

10/24/2025

Meet the 2025 Montana FFA National Officer Candidate Ryan Bal. In this episode, Ryan shares his journey through the blue jacket, and what inspired him to serve the National FFA Organization.

10/23/2025

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In Montana, fields stretch wide and community runs deep. We all hope to do well enough on the farm, at the bank, or wherever our career takes us, to leave a lit

10/23/2025

Rachel Prevost, originally from Lambert, MT, was recently announced as Montana Farmers Union (MFU) Executive Director. She joined in 2020 as a lobbyist and most recently served as Director of Government Affairs and Member Services. She will help guide the organization as they get ready for their annual convention starting next week in Lewistown.

10/23/2025

“The reality is that ranchers’ success is driven by their own hard work,” the National Cattlemen's Beef Association said.

“If President Trump is truly an ally of America’s cattle producers, we call on him to abandon this effort to manipulate markets and focus instead on the promised New World Screwworm facilities in Texas; making additional investments that protect the domestic cattle herd from foreign animal diseases such as FMD; and addressing regulatory burdens, such as delisting of the gray wolf and addressing the scourge of black vultures,” said CEO Colin Woodall.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s plan to increase imports of beef from Argentina, a move th

10/22/2025

There's a lot packed in to USDA's long-awaited plan to strengthen the U.S. beef industry.

The plan includes opening vacant grazing allotments, Endangered Species Act reform, Product of USA label enforcement, deregulation, and enhanced disaster relief.

Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and