Agriculture

Interested in a community greenhouse? Want somewhere to grow away from our brutal shifts in weather and somewhere that lengthens the growing season?

If so, next Friday and Saturday join a conversation with others interested in just such an idea

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JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — President Barack Obama included $8 million in his fiscal year 2013 budget for the National Park Service to buy about 86 acres of state land in Grand Teton National Park.

The money would come from the Land and Water Conservation Fund

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A legislative committee has declined to advance a bill that would have put up $15 million to buy land near Laramie to protect the city's aquifer.

The Senate Minerals, Business and Economic Development Committee declined to vote on the bill after hearing a lengthy presentation from Laramie city officials and others mainly in favor of the funding

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The Casper College Livestock Judging team has won high team overall at the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show in Fort Worth, Texas, competing against 18 other teams and approximately 135 contestants.

In addition to the big win, the team won the horses division, placed second in hogs and reasons

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers are set to consider changing the state's wolf management law to accommodate an agreement that Gov. Matt Mead and U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar reached last year on ending federal protections for the animals in the state

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KIRBY, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's first legal distillery says its first batch of bourbon whiskey will be ready to drink in December.

But Wyoming Whiskey says people will only be able to buy bottles in Wyoming at first because of the limited supply

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Seedling trees for windbreaks and habitat enhancements on rural properties are ready for ordering. The U-W Ag extension office in Casper offers various species in bundles of 30 to 50 through its Seedling Program.

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead is calling on Wyoming lawmakers to endorse a wolf management plan that would designate the animals as predators that could be shot on sight in most of the state

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A federal oil and gas lease sale in Cheyenne brought in more than $22 million for the federal government and state of Wyoming.

Tuesday's sale brought in bids ranging from the federally mandated minimum of $2 an acre on up to a high bid of more than $2,600 per acre

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