Wyoming Department Of Agriculture

The Wyoming Business Council Agribusiness Division and the Wyoming Department of Agriculture administer the USDA Organic Certification Reimbursement program to help producers become organically certified.

Drought plagued states, including Wyoming, have been looking for sources of quality hay for livestock, however hay bales can be a vehicle for importing fire ants, a pest that can have negative impacts on both livestock and humans. Currently 14 states are under quarantine for these pests.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A proposal to change Wyoming's food safety rules to legalize some raw milk sales is pending before Gov. Matt Mead. The Associated Press reports that the proposed change would allow people to buy raw milk as long as they owned a share of the animal that produced it...

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, designated two more counties as primary natural disaster areas due to drought. This brings the total number of primary designation counties to eight while eight other counties qualify for assistance as contiguous to the primary counties.

Modernization and better customer service are behind the closing of 259 U.S. Department of Agriculture offices and lab facilities across the country including two in Wyoming. The consolidations come as the USDA budget gets a 3 billion dollar slashing. Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack, says it doesn’t mean a cut back in services and no one will be losing their job.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it plans to shutter four offices in Montana and Wyoming as part of a $150 million cost cutting measure that includes 259 closures nationwide. The Billings Gazette (http://bit...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming attorney general’s office wants a district judge to list Secretary of State Max Maxfield as a defendant in Maxfield’s own lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of term limits for him and other statewide elected officials...

Strong demand for a shrinking supply of beef is keeping prices high for producers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says prices are at record levels. Chairman of the World Agricultural Outlook Board, Jerry Bange, says they’re forecasting price increases for the next two years, while cattle numbers continue to drop...