By Logan Hawkes From Southwest Farm Press Prolonged drought conditions and unexpected wildfires plagued many farmers and ranchers across Texas and the Southwest last year, causing them to suffer unexpected losses in revenue. But many of them are now discovering they face added tax liabilities because the Internal Revenue Service…
By Henry Brean From the Las Vegas Review-Journal Federal authorities will restrict access to almost 600,000 acres of public land for the next seven weeks as they prepare to round up what they call “trespass cattle” in the desert 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas. The Bureau of Land Management’s…
Agriculture has changed. You used to plant your wheat or corn or beans at the exact times and in the exact order your grandfather did. The biggest thing to watch was the weather. But now it is much more complex. From The Progressive Farmer (March 2014 issue) 1. Shifting Farm…
By Heather Smith Thomas From Cattle Today Grasslands are healthiest when grazed. The periodic mowing stimulates new growth, and manure/urine from the grazing animals (and trampling of grass to provide litter) adds the necessary nutrients to the soil to make the grassland more productive. Throughout the history of agriculture, livestock…
By Candy Moulton From my longtime friend Bob Boze Bell’s magazine True West When my grand-mother arrived in Wyoming in March 1903 and moved into the two-room cabin her first husband had built, she must have believed her life in the American West would be better than what she would…
