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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.
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Montana Ag Network: Montana sheep producer elected to national office
Montana Ag Network: Montana sheep producer elected to national office
and last updated 2021-04-11 12:07:32-04
BILLINGS â Over the years, Montanaâs agriculture industry has been well represented on the national level. And that trend will continue with the recent election of a sheep producer from Lavina to the officer team of the American Sheep Industry Association (ASI).
âI ve always been proud to be a sheep producer,â said ASI Secretary/Treasurer Ben Lehfeldt. âOur sheep have allowed us to add more cattle and add more opportunities to our ranch. And I want to make sure the next generation has those same opportunities and not just here, but in the Midwest and the East. There s opportunities abound with targeted grazing and other things that the sheep really offer. So, I want to try to give back and promote those things and enhance those opportunities as an officer.â
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.