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Montana Farm Bureau praises withdrawal of child labor rules
News that’s the Labor Department has withdrawn the proposed rules that would have prevented many young people from working in agriculture was met with great enthusiasm by MFBF.
Meats and Cheese Cause Slight Increase in Retail Food Prices
Retail food prices at the supermarket increased slightly during the first quarter of 2012 with protein staples—meats and cheese—showing the greatest increase in price, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey.
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May 17th, 2012: Montana Farm Bureau in strong opposition of I-166
The recently proposed Initiative 166, although couched in campaign finance reform rhetoric, would hurt small business and family farmers and ranchers, according to the Montana Farm Bureau Federation. “This is not about finance reform and banning corporate money in campaigns, it’s about constitutional rights,” says John Youngberg, Montana Farm Bureau’s vice president of governmental affairs. [...] Continue reading . . .
May 11th, 2012: MFBF says government agencies may be in violation of law if bison hazing halted
The state’s largest agricultural organization, the Montana Farm Bureau, says the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service may risk violating the Interagency Bison Management Plan (IBMP) if helicopter hazing of buffalo is halted. A group, the Alliance of the Wild Rockies, has [...] Continue reading . . .
May 2nd, 2012: NORTH DAKOTA AND MONTANA: A TALE OF TWO ENERGY STATES
By William Perry Pendley, President and Chief Operating Officer, Mountain States Legal Foundation In response to President Obama’s claims regarding his role in the dramatic increase in oil and gas production across the country, experts, such as the Institute for Energy Research, demonstrate that leasing of federal lands let alone the production from them has [...] Continue reading . . .
How Dumb Is That?
August 4th, 2011: Lemonade Crackdown
Originally posted on the National Review Online By Iain Murray In the past couple of months, police have put children’s lemonade stands out of business in Texas, Georgia, Wisconsin, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. (There’s a great map, with links to the news stories, here.) The kids have been taught a lesson, but it’s one we [...] Continue reading . . .
How Dumb Is That?
June 6th, 2011: You tell me, how dumb is that?
Agriculture is a challenging business. Battling mother nature, predators and rising input costs are challenging enough. Unfortunately it’s becoming more and more common that our biggest challenges are those that we face because of expensive, unnecessary and often down-right dumb regulations coming from a heavy-handed and sometimes far removed bureaucracy. Many examples are humorous. To [...] Continue reading . . .
