U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack appeared on a phone-in press conference out of Bozeman on Monday to introduce a new loan guarantee program that will help expand loan guarantee programs and address bottlenecks in the food supply chain.

Despite some much needed recent rain in the Missoula area, many Montana counties have been dubbed "natural disaster areas" due to severe drought conditions the state has faced in the past few weeks—Missoula being one of them.