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GREAT FALLS, Mont. - Move over Idaho! According to Farmers Union President Walter Schweitzer, Montana is “world famous” for quality of our seed potatoes. Spring is finally here and you
Farmers Union to host Havre food resiliency workshop May 18
Last updated 5/6/2021 at 11:52am
Montana Farmers Union will be hosting a free event in Havre May 18, “Rebuilding Food Resiliency,” as part of the union’s spring workshop series. “The American Rescue Plan, when you read about it, one of the goals is to rebuild food resiliency. That means investment in infrastructure to get local regionalized processing going again, it means increasing the ability to store food products, and the programs that will be available for communities to to invest in their own communities for regional processing,” Montana Farmers Union President Walter Schweitzer said Wednesday.
Montana Snowpack Building After Dry Spell, But Drought Still A Factor
Meteorologists last fall said Montana could be in store for a particularly cold and snowy La Niña winter. By late October, cold temperatures and record snowfall shattered regional records but that wintery weather quickly gave way to much drier and mild conditions.
So what has happened to our winter, and what’s next?
Montana Farmers Union President Walter Schweitzer remembers that cold and snowy October weather.
“Forced us to start feeding the cows a little earlier than we wanted, he said.
Schweitzer raises cattle and runs a haying operation southeast of Great Falls near Geyser. He said November ushered in significant changes.
Montana Farmers Union makes second donation of pork ribs to the food bank network
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Montana Food Bank Network board member Jan Tusick and network CEO Gayle Carlson stand next to boxes of pork donated to the network by Montana Farmers Union and Farmers Union Enterprises.
From Montana Farmers Union GREAT FALLS - Montana Farmers Union and Farmers Union Enterprises made another sizeable in-kind donation of 38,000 pounds of pork ribs to the Montana Food Bank Network. The ribs are from Redwood Farms and will be distributed by the Montana Food Bank Network. Redwood Farms is one of the entities in the Farmers Union family of businesses owned by Farmers Union Enterprises.