GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alberta -- An Alaska farm group is working on a proposal to try to get its state border opened to live Canadian cattle. "We have historically purchased our animals from Canada," said ...
Alaska does not count cows as a native species, but on far-flung Chirikof Island, in the Kodiak Archipelago, feral cattle dominate the harsh landscape. It's a hard life out there for an unmanaged herd ...
Your mental image of an Alaskan farm probably involves a plot of land amid endless country, hemmed in only by distant, snow-capped peaks. Perhaps that image is informed by articles on “cheap” and ...
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed cracks in Alaska’s long, tenuous food supply chain. Our governor responded by convening a Food Security Task Force and selling state land for farm use. Yet farmland is ...