Items Tagged with 'Wyoming'

Western producers in areas once dealing with devastating droughts scrambled to keep their livestock safe and fed this winter as a series of storms caused record-breaking amounts of precipitation. Now, the snowpack is beginning to melt, and there are concerns about potential flooding.

Farmland values are maintaining their strength, and loan volumes are declining, but economic growth in rural parts of the Midwest and northern Plains remains slow, according to Creighton University's Rural Mainstreet Index.

A $20 million grant from the state of Wyoming– the largest economic grant in the state’s history– will scale Plenty’s work in indoor agriculture research and development.