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MSU To Host Statewide Agricultural Research Center Field Days In June And July
The public is invited to attend free annual field days across Montana to tour and learn about the people, places and projects involved with agricultural research at Montana State University's College...
MSU Releases Green Pea Variety 12 Years In The Making
More than a decade ago when Montana's pulse crop industry was a sliver in northeastern Montana and there wasn't much money to fund alternative crop trials, a Montana State University agricultural...
MSU Faculty Seek To Increase Participation Of Women In Agriculture With USDA Grant
Data from the U.S. Bureau of Statistics and United States Department of Agriculture show while women constitute less than 1 percent of the nation’s agricultural scientists, engineers and policymakers, they occupy the majority, about 60 percent, of...
Montana Organic Lentil Pioneer David Oien To Be Honored As Outstanding Agricultural Leader
BOZEMAN - A third-generation Montana farmer with a philosophy degree who spent 30 years shepherding Montana agriculture into the forefront of organic and alternative crop production has been named...
MSU Professor Finds Irrigation Timing Benefits Wheat Yield And Quality
In an agricultural state enduring one of the worst droughts in recent history, a Montana State University crop physiologist may have some good news for state watersheds and farmers' pocketbooks when...
MSU College of Agriculture Students Win More than $400,000 in Scholarships
BOZEMAN – The Montana State University College of Agriculture distributed more than $400,000 in scholarships to more than 200 agriculture students at its annual student scholarship banquet held earlier this month. The banquet, held during the colle...
MSU to honor Jim Hagenbarth as Outstanding Agricultural Leader
Jim Hagenbarth of Hagenbarth Livestock in Dillon has been named the 2016 Outstanding Agricultural Leader on behalf of Montana State University's College of Agriculture and Montana Agricultural...
Montana State Starts New Program
BOZEMAN - The Montana State University Alumni Foundation has developed a new way for farmers to support Montana State University: through donations of grain. The new program, called Bushels for...
MSU Montana Agricultural Experiment Station Releases Wheat Variety Resistant To Major Pest
Nine years ago, a tiny orange bug quietly entered northwestern Montana and began demolishing spring wheat yields, costing producers millions of dollars. What was once a primary cash crop for Flathead and Lake counties quickly became an economic...
MSU-Developed Varieties Are Top Planted Wheat Crops In Montana This Year
Montana farmers planted wheat varieties developed by the Montana State University Montana Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES) more than any other variety in 2015, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. USDA statistics show th...
MSU Online Master's Graduate Studies Results of Fracking Brine Water Spill
Alexa Azure has always been interested in water. An enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, she remembers one spring when the water tasted gritty and another time when Standing Rock completely ran out of water. She...
MSU Scientists Find Higher Economic Returns When Grain Growers Use Pulse Crops Instead Of Fallow
BOZEMAN - Wheat growers who grow both pea and wheat in their fields are likely to lessen the economic risks of farming while maintaining the same level of profits as those who grow only wheat or leave a field fallow, according to a group of Montana...
