Gathering news and notes from around U.S. cattle country—and beyond.

Prologue According to Homer, Chimera was a hybrid monster made up of a lion, the head of a fire-breathing goat sprouting on ...

President Donald Trump’s vow to shrink America’s military deployment in Germany has put a new spotlight on the U.S. role in Europe.

It’s 6 a.m. as the rising sun illuminates apricot-colored cliffs in central Armenia. It’s so still that even the distant buzz ...

The fuel protests prompted debate on the link between a lack of energy self-sufficiency and high prices, with many asking why ...

DRIVE NORTH THROUGH HOPLAND this spring, past Ukiah into Redwood Valley. You'll notice gaps. Where Cabernet and Zinfandel twisted toward the sun last October, now there's bare dirt, stacked rootstock, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

ELDON, Mo., April 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Small Batch Farms, a family-owned beef operation based outside of the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, today announced the official launch of its online ...

Russian forces launched attack drones to strike a village in the Semenivka hromada in Chernihiv Oblast on the night of 27-28 April, targeting farming businesses. [A hromada is an administrative unit ...