Agriculture

The Montana Veterans Affair Rep has blown into our Golden Triangle this week, & if you missed the rep this morning (Wednesday) here in Shelby, there's still an opportunity for a visit this afternoon from 1 until 3 o'clock over in Cut Bank at the Glacier County Extension Office. To...

Partly cloudy Montana skies this afternoon (Wednesday) & high temperatures around 75...a perfect day for a farmers market, & there's 1 this afternoon over in Cut Bank. The Cut Bank Farmers Market will be going full tilt from 3 o'clock this  afternoon until 6 tonight. At las...

Daniel & Panayiota McCorkle are resting side by side west of Conrad these days but they've "alive & well" in the book we're currently reading up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. The biography of Daniel & Panayiota, "To Speak Of Love Was Not Enough" by Dorothy (Mrs. Louis) Flo...

Summer's in full swing with a farmers market scheduled for this afternoon (Wednesday) over in Cut Bank in City Park. Today''s market runs from 3 until 6 this afternoon in the park. Fresh fruits & vegetables will keep you healthy, wealthy & wise. Perhap...

The Precipitation Report for the month of May at the Knees has been officially released! May 17th saw .88, while the 29th of the month rolled in with a .49. May 27th & May 28th posted .25 & .24 respectively. There was .24 on the 16th, & .21 on the 2...

Learning and good nutrition go hand-in-hand. That’s why it’s important for kids to have a fun, healthy summer; so they return to school this fall with sharp minds and strong bodies.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program helps accomplish this by providing free meals to kids this summer in communities across Montana...

I received word this morning (Tuesday) from Tall Todd, the custom cutter guy who shows up here to the Golden Triangle every harvest season. Todd says that his crew has started to harvest in Vernon, Teas, where they have had over 25 inches of rain...

There's a HUGE Plant Sale coming up this Saturday from 9 in the morning until 4 Saturday afternoon down at Hardware Hank's here in Shelby. This Saturday's Plant Sale supports the RECC's program...Regional Early Childhood Centers. The plants consist of mostly vegetable plants like squash, pumpkins, peppers, cucumber, broccoli, cabbage, & tomatoes. On...

,I'll be up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby this evening (Tuesday) to share more Montana History & we should be wrapping up Gildford/Montana author Russell B. Crites tome, "The Long___Awakening," it's been a truly fun & quite & unique read. Crite's "T...

Everything old is new again, & Tall Todd & his custom harvester guys are no exception. Todd & his crew are down in Vernon, Texas. The move down there last week was long & full of detours, with 1 taking them east from Sheridan, Wyoming, towards the Black Hills where over a foot of snow was dumped. East of Gillet...

It's all about WATER this weekend under our Big "Wet: Sky.We're enjoying the here in ther Golden Triangle this weekend with daytime high temperatures in the 50's & overnight low's down into the mid 30's. The Shelby Junior Track Meet scheduled for today (Saturday) has been CANCELLED... ...

"The Long Ride Home", Kari Lynn Dell's marvelous ""Montana read" tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 7:30 on Puffman Sports Trivia. The protagonist in the book, David Parsons, came in search of his missing horse...& wound up losing his heart! Ka...