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USDA to Provide Payments to Livestock Producers Impacted by Drought or Wildfire

By Zach Altman | March 31, 2022

The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that ranchers who have approved applications through the 2021 Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) for forage losses due to severe drought or…

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President Biden Releases FY23 Budget Proposal

By Zach Altman | March 31, 2022

The White House officially released their fiscal year 2023 (FY23) budget request on March 28, 2022. The release of the President’s budget proposal which outlines the administration’s spending priorities, is…

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Water availability, regs spur farmland value chasm

By Zach Altman | March 29, 2022

It took a few years, but ag land values in California now reflect action taken by legislators eight years ago to pass the state’s landmark groundwater law. A growing chasm…

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Senators Fischer, Grassley, Tester, Wyden unveil updated cattle market reform bill

By Zach Altman | March 29, 2022

U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released an updated version of their legislation, the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act.…

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Corner crossers reach for federal court, access to 1.6M Western acres

By Zach Altman | March 29, 2022

Four hunters charged with trespassing in Carbon County Wyoming seek a federal court where their case could resolve the legality of corner crossing to access 1.6 million acres of public…

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New Legislation Would Improve Grazing and Wildlife Habitat Potential of Conservation Reserve Program

By Zach Altman | March 28, 2022

U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, have introduced the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Improvement Act. This legislation…

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Colorado hits a “hard pause” on water demand management as it waits for other states to catch up

By Zach Altman | March 25, 2022

Colorado is taking a “hard pause” on investigating the viability of demand management, a program that would allow the state to pay water users to temporarily and voluntarily conserve water…

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New Mexico agencies: defining conservation key to 30×30

By Zach Altman | March 18, 2022

Defining what it means to conserve land and assessing existing conservation projects will be key to meeting New Mexico’s climate goals, state agency leaders said this week. Sarah Cottrell Propst,…

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CPW no longer final arbiter of wolf reintroduction after court relists species as endangered

By Zach Altman | March 17, 2022

A federal court ruling in February relisting gray wolves as an endangered species across much of the United States could complicate Colorado’s wolf reintroduction effort.

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Race to the bottom: How big business took over Oregon’s first protected aquifer

By Zach Altman | March 16, 2022

In Malheur County’s Cow Valley, state regulators have ignored known issues with overpumping groundwater, leaving the region at risk of economic and ecological damage that will be difficult to reverse.

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