Montana Ag Network: New wool lab to be built at MSU Bozeman
Montana Ag Network: New wool lab to be built at Montana State University
and last updated 2021-05-20 00:28:27-04
Bozeman - In 1945, the Montana Legislature first approved funding to construct the Montana Wool Lab on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman. The landmark building currently sits on the north end of Bozemanâs campus on South 11th Avenue.
Completed in 1947, the lab has served sheep and wool producers nationwide by conducting research and testing to help sheep producers improve their wool clip for fiber diameter and wool yield, which significantly influences their income from wool. The lab is one of only two testing locations for wool fiber left in the nation.
Montana Ag Network: New wool lab will be built at MSU
Montana Ag Network: New wool lab to be built at Montana State University
and last updated 2021-05-20 10:11:25-04
Bozeman - In 1945, the Montana Legislature first approved funding to construct the Montana Wool Lab on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman. The landmark building currently sits on the north end of Bozemanâs campus on South 11th Avenue.
Completed in 1947, the lab has served sheep and wool producers nationwide by conducting research and testing to help sheep producers improve their wool clip for fiber diameter and wool yield, which significantly influences their income from wool. The lab is one of only two testing locations for wool fiber left in the nation.
By Nicole Rolf and Rachel Cone, Montana Farm Bureau Federation
The deadline to transmit fiscal bills to the second chamber in the 2021 Montana Legislative Session arrived this week. We didn’t see a lot of floor action on some of our agriculture-specific bills in either chamber, as legislators were hard at work focused on handling the fiscal bills well. We did see progress on some important fiscal bills. House Bill 2: the General Appropriations Act has been passed through both chambers. This is the state’s budget that funds many of the programs and agencies important to us, and the completion of this bill often signals a race to the session’s finish line.
Leopold wolf following grizzly bear
A slate of bills making their way through Montana’s legislative session indicate a potential sea change in how the Treasure State will manage big carnivores and who gets a say in making those decisions.
Nicky Ouellet: Rachel, we’re halfway through Montana’s legislative session. Can you bring us up to speed on several bills that made it through the transmittal deadline that take aim at reducing the wolf population in Montana?
Rachel Cramer: Earlier this month, Montana’s Senate passed Senate Bill 314 from Sen. Bob Brown, a Republican from Thompson Falls, which would allow hunters and trappers to kill unlimited numbers of wolves on a single license. For context, the bag limit right now is five wolves per season whether someone has a trapping license, hunting license or both.
Pet owners, wildlife advocates oppose MT bill legalizing strangulating wolf snares
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and last updated 2021-02-03 13:40:20-05
HELENA â A few weeks ago, Missoula residents Fred and Linda Lerch took their dogs for a hike up Black Cat Canyon near Frenchtown. Suddenly, the pleasant day took a bad turn as they ran into another couple still unnerved by a situation that occurred just minutes before.
The other coupleâs dog had been caught in a trapperâs snare. They had tried frantically to get the dog loose while trying to dial 9-1-1 in an area where reception was spotty. They finally succeeded in freeing the dog, which fortunately survived, so they were taking him back home.