Ranchers

Frustrated with persistently low prices, ranchers and others in the beef industry are moving to reverse a long trend of consolidation and planning to open new slaughterhouses.

The drought is driving up the cost of hay.

Governor Gordon offered this proclamation as a way to acknowledge the ranchers and farmers of Wyoming and to show them that their efforts have not gone unnoticed.

Commissioners say it will take time to ensure that all have a say on the polarizing issue.

Seeing the severity of the wounds, the third-generation rancher knew exactly what had happened and what he needed to do.

The Department of Agriculture did not respond to a request for comment.

Cameron Sholly replaces former Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk less than a week after he said he was being forced out as a possible "punitive action" over the park's bison policies.

Barrasso's state Republican colleague, Sen. Mike Enzi, is among the co-sponsors.

Tuesday marked the first of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's series of public comment sessions known as scoping meetings. A report on the comments will be published later this year.

This week's spring snowstorm likely resulted in deaths among newborn calves in Wyoming, but ranchers are OK with the losses because of the moisture the storms brought to parched grazing pastures.