Agriculture

The state's unemployment rate dropped slightly in the fourth quarter to 4.1 percent, slightly higher than the national rate of 3.8 percent.

There is little chance of the government shutdown ending soon.

The bankers say farmers are borrowing more money because their costs are increasing at the same time that they are bringing in less income.

Jeffrey Gerhart, CEO of the Bank of Newman Grove in northeastern Nebraska, says the tariffs are affecting farmers' income and are bad policy from the White House.

The Teton County case is not related to the case found in early October in Park County.

Game and Fish will continue to monitor the population and conduct further sampling to determine the breadth of the infestation.

More farm loan applications are being rejected in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government announced a $12 billion plan Tuesday to assist farmers who have been hurt by President Donald Trump's trade disputes with China and other trading partners.
The plan focuses on Midwest soybean producers and others targeted by retaliatory measures...

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says the new tariffs are hurting grain prices, which were already weak.

That could mean more giant rangeland wildfires that in recent decades destroyed vast areas of sagebrush country that support some 350 species of wildlife, including imperiled sage grouse.