April 6, 2017 Trump orders USDA to open conservation lands to grazing for wildfire-devastated ranchers President Donald Trump directed the department to open emergency grazing in certain lands in the Conservation Reserve Protection program in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma…
April 5, 2017 Is NCBA spending Beef Checkoff Program money to hurt independent ranchers? National Cattlemen’s Beef Association appears to have supported USDA’s recent ruling to allow possible foot-and-mouth disease-infected South American beef to be brought into our…
March 22, 2017 Rotten meat scandal prompts temporary ban on Brazilian beef imports According to Brazilian police reports, three factories belonging to BRF (the world’s top poultry producer) and JBS (the world’s top beef exporter), have been…
March 20, 2017 Ranchers facing existential threat in wake of catastrophic wildfires Ranching families across this countryside are now facing an existential threat to a way of life that has sustained them since homesteading days: years…
March 13, 2017 Ranchers, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, feds wrangle over grazing in Weminuche Wilderness In a Feb. 19 letter to The Free Range Report called “Radical Environmentalist Bullying the Forest Service to Deny Renewal of Longtime Sheep Allotments,”…
March 10, 2017 BLM, horse ‘lovers’ group spar over genetic manipulation of wild horse herds The government then returned the herds to the wild with significantly less genetic variation than it needs to survive, Front Range claims, in violation…
February 10, 2017 Mexican gray wolf attacks on rise in Arizona, along with costs, complications “All that was left was a leg and a few bone shards. I just got lucky to find it,” he said, noting that he…
February 1, 2017 California ranchers, farmers sue over unlawful, unscientific, endangered wolf listing PLF, farmers, and ranchers challenge state’s ‘endangered’ listing of gray wolf Damien M. Schiff Pacific Legal Foundation So argues a lawsuit filed on January…
November 29, 2016 Arizona faces costly effects of protected wolf populations The Livestock Loss Board voted unanimously Nov. 3 to compensate ranchers up to $2,500 per animal for confirmed wolf kills. The action is an…
November 16, 2016 Tribal Ranchers believe DAPL protesters responsible for spike in bison deaths An enrolled tribal member, Mrs. Fischer and her husband, Ernie, are convinced that at least 13 of their bison have been butchered, barbecued and…
