Agriculture

What a WONDERFUL week for the area Farmers' Markets here in our Golden Triangle...high temperatures in the 70's & 800's! The Cut Bank Farmers' Market is happening this afternoon (Wednesday) from 3 to 6 at Cut Bank City Park. Tomorrow morning, there's a Food Market up at Spark Park in Sunburst beginning at 9 o'clock SHARP. Ou...

The following is a news release from the recently-formed Yellowstone Wolf Patrol, regarding their efforts to "Monitor and Disrupt" the hunting of wolves near Yellowstone National Park: Americans outraged with the killing of wolves from Yellowstone National Park (YNP) have organized the YELLOWSTONE WOLF PATROL, whose members have entered the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness to monitor and do

Tall Todd, the custom harvester fellow, says there's still a lot of grain left to be harvested in the Cut Bank area. Todd has moved north of the border to begin harvesting up Alberta way. Earlier, heavy rains delayed the Canadian harvest & early snows put much of the crop FLAT on the ground. Th...

He's Werner Freund who lives with a pack of wolves & feeds them directly from his mouth! The "Fearless" Freund is one of the cool features in the newest/latest BIG BOOK from Ripley's Believe it or Not!". It's Ripley's "Reality Shock!" & I'm giving the book away to a lucky caller this afternoon (Tuesday) right after my interview with the VP of Exhibits & Archive

The Oilmont County Water District's water is CONTAMINATED with E. coli & is currently under a boil water ORDER. E. coli bacteria were found in the water supply on August 18th AND August 25th! Additional tests confirmed the presence of bacteria. Th...

I received a precipitation report from the Knees area this morning (Thursday) & the total precip for the month of August totaled 2.57 inches. SNAKES are on the move in the area, heading for the dens & the birds are bunching up, ready to move south. Could ...

The Brady District water is turned OFF today (Wednesday) until 6 o'clock this evening. The Brady boys are doing some new upgrades on ol' Mr. Water System. There will also be a road closure for approximately 3 days at the intersection of Central Avenue & South Brady Road. Pl...

Puffman Musical Trivia doesn't take the day off today (Monday) & I was "Laboring" into the wee hours of the morning to come up with a neat trivia prize along with a GREAT Puffman Musical Trivia question for this afternoon. I've put together a musical trivia question on one of the cool TV shows from back when I was a teenager. I'...

It's one of the BEST Farmers Markets on the Rocky Mountain Front & it's happening this morning (Saturday) down in Choteau. The Choteau Farmers Market will open at 8:30 this morning & they are well stocked with locally grown fruits & vegetables & all the other good stuff that you can find at a Montana Farmers Market. Hope to see yo...

The Sunburst FFA is raising money to travel to the Nationals next month (October) & you can help. The Sunburst FFA would like your old license plates for a project they are building. You can drop your plates off at the NAPA store here in Shelby, or to ANY of the Sunburst FFA members. Wh...

She's Francine Beach & Francine is the $10 WINNER from last Thursday's Shelby Food & Craft Market. It's Thursday & that means another Shelby Food & Craft Market this afternoon down in Shelby City Park. The Market runs from 4 until 6 today & they're going full tilt with corn, squash, & cucumbers! Hope to see you later ...

There'll be a Farmers' Market over in Cut Bank this afternoon (Wednesday). High quality fruits & vegetables grown right here in our Golden Triangle by our local neighbors & friends will be available for sale this afternoon between 3 & 6 o'clock. Nothing be...