This opportunity is open to any Montana FFA, 4-H, or school shop program. MFU wants to promote a student skill development with fund-raising potential. MFU needs six (6) twin / twin and ten (10) twin / queen bunkbeds. Programs are encouraged to develop their own project...
Montana Farmers Union is supportive of senators Jon Tester and Mike Rounds action this week to file an official Congressional Review Act that would overturn the Biden Administration’s recent decision to lift a long-standing ban on beef imports from Paraguay. “Here in Montana we hold our...
Montana Farmers Union applauds senators Jon Tester's and Chuck Grassley's recent letter to colleagues in opposition to any policy riders in the FY 2024 Agriculture Appropriations bill that weaken the Packers and Stockyards Act and its protections for producers and consumers."Montana Farmers Union appreciates senators...
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From National Farmers UnionThis week, National Farmers Union (NFU) sent a letter to Appropriations Committee leadership opposing harmful restrictions that would undo important work to revitalize the Packers and Stockyards Act (P&S Act) to better protect family farmers and ranchers.The letter, signed by national, regional,...
By Rachel PrevostMFU Member Services & Government Affairs DirectorMontana Farmers Union members, farmers, and ranchers, met with Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs Bill Russo in January, relaying the impacts, priorities, and concerns that family farmers have in the foreign policy realm with...
/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 29-01-2024 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=".svg"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} From Montana Farmers Union President Walter SchweitzerBefore you vote in the 2024 election you should evaluate how your legislator voted in 2023. Did they vote to support rural Montanans and family farms and ranches, or...
Winter means a welcome time to rest and reflect in anticipation of the next season. Still, equipment needs to be maintained, bookwork needs to be caught up on, shop projects wait, and animals must be fed and watered. Much like farm work, the magazine goes through lulls...
/*! elementor - v3.18.0 - 06-12-2023 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=".svg"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Producers can learn more about precision ag equipment and ask questions from industry experts during Precision Ag events being held by Montana Farmers Union during the MAGIE and the MATE.The first event will be 10...
Montana Farmers Union is pleased to announce 2024 participants in the Farmers Union Enterprises Leadership cohort.Emma Wickens, Hilger; Lisa Wade-Mayorga, Kila; Oscar Mayorga, Kila; and April Martin, Busby, will join other participants from the additional Farmers Union Enterprises states of Wisconsin, North Dakota, Minnesota and...