The future of Montana agriculture

On June 1, Great Falls was the center of our nation's agriculture conversation as I hosted the Montana Ag Summit, a conversation about the future of jobs in our state's number one economic driver: Agriculture.

We had two of the nation's top ag leaders at the Montana Ag Summit: the new U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, and the U.S. Senate Ag Committee Chairman, Pat Roberts.

The day before the Summit, Secretary Perdue and Senator Roberts joined me in Cascade, Montana for a listening session at Rick Bogden's cow-calf operation. We had several ag groups there including the Wool Growers,...