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Ranchers search for cattle after Logan Canyon crash

Last updated Friday, November 9, 2012 - 10:43am

LOGAN — Ranchers have been searching Utah’s Logan Canyon for several cattle that scattered after the truck hauling them overturned.

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Ranchers wait while Congress debates farm bill

Kyle Roerink Casper Star Tribune

Last updated Friday, September 21, 2012 - 8:22am

CASPER, Wyo. -- Western ranchers want two things: rain for their pastures and the U.S. House to pass the 2012 Farm Bill.

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Utah repeals 'forever' with pie-in-the-sky federal land suit

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 5:46pm

"The people inhabiting this State do affirm and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries hereof..."

-- Utah Constitution, Article 3, Section 2

When Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, is the voice of reason, the argument has gone off the rails. Utah suing the federal government to get Utah's federal land is one such train wreck.

Education, Constitution, Development, Drinking water, Federal Government, Federal land, Government funding, Grazing, Growth, Income tax, Infrastructure, Land development, Lawsuit, Public land, Ranchers, Ranching, Snowbasin, Staff column, Trees, U.S. Forest Service, Utah, Utah Constitution, Utah Legislature, Wasatch Rambler, Environmental concerns Read more Comments

A young ranch hand chases a herd of wild horses near Ganado, Ariz. during a wild horse roundup August 19, 2011. Problems with abandoned horses roaming on ranch land caused chapter officials to round the animals up and hold them until they could be claimed by their owners. (AP Photo/Gallup Independent, Brian Leddy)

Farmers and ranchers oppose stricter child-labor rules

Jerry Daniel Reed Abilene Reporter-News

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 11:00am

Richard Thorpe worries the pathway he took to the rural ranching life he enjoys today may be blocked for kids who grow up in town.

Thorpe, owner of the Mesa TY Ranch east of Winters, Texas, strongly opposes a proposed U.S. Labor Department rule that would bar young teenagers from working on farms and ranches where they're not related to the owner-operator.

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)
Auctioneers Rich Holmgren (left) and Ed Kelly auction off some cattle at an Anderson Livestock Auction in Willard.

Higher beef prices help Utah ranchers

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 9:00am

WILLARD -- When the price of a corral full of young heifers ended at $1.82 a pound, the owner of the Anderson Livestock Auctions shook his head and said, "That's a lot of money."

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Vegas wants more rural water

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 3, 2012 - 2:56pm

LAS VEGAS — With a crucial water rights decision pending, the Southern Nevada Water Authority is revising its request to Nevada’s top water rights official — asking to raise by almost 80 percent the amount of groundwater Las Vegas can draw from rural valleys in counties north of the city.

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Ranchers asked to help search for body of missing teacher

Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 3:57pm

SIDNEY, Mont. -- Authorities are appealing to farmers and ranchers in the remote wheat fields along the North Dakota-Montana border for help in finding the body of schoolteacher Sherry Arnold, who disappeared more than a week ago while jogging near her home in Sidney, Mont.

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