Agriculture

Huge carbon exchange, first of its kind.

The Natrona County Predator Management Board has increased the bounty on Coyotes taken by county residents to $25.00. In an effort to help control the coyote population in Natrona County, the Predator Board with funding from Natrona County Livestock Producers has instituted the bounty to be paid to Natrona County residents for coyotes taken in Natrona County...

The Governor’s Brucellosis Coordination Team will meet in Worland, WY on November 12, 2014 at the Worland Community Center to discuss various brucellosis related issues. The meeting will run from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and items on the agenda include a State Veterinarian update, a report on the revised Brucellosis affected herd plan for cattle and bison, updates on funded research projects by Univers

  As the weather changes, many big game animals leave their summer and fall ranges to head for traditional wintering areas. Some animals move significant distances while others only move a few miles…but regardless of the distance, migration does occur every year and the migration routes often lead animals into conflict with motorists as they cross numerous highways on the way to their wintering ar

As the U.S. Department of Agriculture's rapid implementation of the 2014 Farm Bill continues, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced proposed changes to the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), one of USDA's largest conservation programs for working agricultural lands...

The Wyoming Beef Council (WBC) partnered with the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) to educate Takanori Yamagami from Japan's Agriculture & Livestock Industries Corporation (ALIC) about beef production and handling in Wyoming. The WBC, a five-member board of beef producers, works on behalf of the cattle growers of Wyoming to increase demand for beef nationally and internationally through pro

Testing by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has found chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk and moose, in a deer from Fremont County in deer hunt area 160. Staff at the Game and Fish’s wildlife disease laboratory in Laramie confirmed a yearling mule deer buck as CWD positive...

Sundance, Wyoming – Almost 2,000 acres of productive ranchland in Crook County will remain in agriculture thanks to a conservation easement on the Wood Ranch donated in part to the Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust by landowner Jackie Griffith...

New initiative announced to fund infrastructure. Compared to REA.

Governor Mead accompanied the Secretary on tour of sage grouse habitat.