agriculture

Farmland across the West may be doing more than growing crops. It could also help stop wildfires in their tracks.

The University of Wyoming grew hefty, 9-inch-long carrots when it added coal char to the soil. Researchers say this could be another market for the declining coal industry.

Concerns about costs to ranchers contrast with repopulation efforts.

Droughts and wet periods in major Western watersheds often happen together, according to new research that shows how water conditions in one area can be closely tied to those hundreds of miles away.

Wyoming may resume collecting data in the Green River and Little Snake River basins as part of a future Upper Colorado River Basin project.

In Nebraska, Blackshirt Feeders LP is building the country’s largest feedlot for 200,000 beef cattle on a square-mile slab of concrete.

A sixth-generation Jackson Hole ranching family is giving the new tech a try.

Along the Colorado River, 30 federally recognized tribes have legal and cultural claims. Yet they have no formal seat in negotiations.

There is less water available now in the Colorado River and negotiators are working to figure out how to distribute that water.

Ranchers object to more competition during a drought-stricken year.