Harvesting begins with the dill being swathed into rows so it can be picked up, chopped, and blown into trailer-like tubs. Photo courtesy of Great Northern Farms.
With the average age of farmers and ranchers in Montana increasing, there is a need to help the next generation, like Johnston and Brosten, to have the greatest possible chance for success in Montana’s number-one industry. The following free services are available to beginning farmers and ranchers as well as to those wanting to expand or retire:
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Andrei Shkurigin has happy memories of growing up in the Soviet Union. “The idea of equality was huge. Children were the focus of the entire society because they truly were the future of the country,” he says. Field trips were to places such as the theater, ballet, and operas. As Andrei points out, “The advertisements that I passed by were cool. I never thought, ‘I want my kids to grow up and do this.’”
But that is exactly what has happened. Andrei’s oldest daughter, Sasha, now finds herself at one of the most prestigious ballet schools in the world: Moscow State Academy of Choreography…better known as Bolshoi Ballet.
Just how does a boy behind the Iron Curtain come to America, achieve his dreams in a place like Helena, and then why would he send his daughter back to his homeland?
During the first weeks of August, most public school teachers are catching the last rays of sunshine before heading back to the classroom for another school year. Instead Bill Lombardi is recovering from jet leg after returning from two weeks of work with farmers in the African nation of Malawi through the Farmer-to-Farmer Program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development. He is also taking part in the county fair of which he is an organizer; he is attending to the daily tasks of being a father to 14 children; and he is seeing to the chores at the school farm while getting ready for a new school year as FFA (Future Farmers of America) instructor at Powell County High School, which is presently in the midst of a major reconstruction project.
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