Farm406

farm406 WWW.FARM406MAGAZINE.COM SUBSCRIPTIONS If you are moving, renewing, have a question, please call Winston Publishing. A new subscriber's first issue will be mailed within 8 weeks of order receipt. Our standard subscription rate is $35 per year. WINSTON PUBLISHING P.O. Box 1707 • Great Falls, MT 59403 or call 406-452-1177 or email us at info@winston-publishing.com Any reproduction of all or part of FARM406 without the express written permission of the publisher is prohibited. PRINTED IN THE USA All statements, including product claims, are those of the person or organization making the statement or claim. The publisher does not adopt any such statement or claims as its own and any such statement or claim does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the publisher. EDITORIAL PUBLISHER David F. Leray EDITOR Hayley Lenington-Leray CREATIVE DIRECTOR Ted Stuff SALES/MARKETING Jack May, Jessica Riffel GRAPHIC DESIGNER Samantha Louthan CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Eric Belasco, Diane Charlton, Val Farmer, Jenny Lavey, Shannon Ruckman CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS John and Elisha Mack, Ali Spoon Eric Visocan, Sara Young CULINARY SPECIALIST Chandee Bomgardner Eric Visocan hails from Fort Benton, Montana and is the owner of Burnt Image Photography LLC and Montana Jigsaw Puzzles. Eric specializes in commercial, portrait and landscape photography and sells epic photographs of Montana landscapes at art and trade shows across the State of Montana. Photographer Sara Young is a native Montanan specializing in creative portrait photography, with a love for photojournalism. The bulk of her current work is shooting weddings and family portraits, as well as mentoring budding photographers around the state. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Shannon Ruckman has an Agricultural Communications degree from Kansas State University. She has been writing about Montana agriculture for 14 years. Shannon and her husband have three kids and live in rural central Montana. John and Elisha Mack are Really Montana Photography. They passionately craft images people want to look at. Great Falls is home, Montana outdoors their playground. RESOURCE PARTNERS: MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Director: BEN THOMAS Communications Officer: ANDY FJESETH For More information contact: Andy Fjeseth, Communications officer PO Box 200201 | Helena, MT 59601-0201 406-444-3684 | afjeseth@mt.gov MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION P.O. Box 172230 | Bozeman, MT 59717-223 (406) 994-1750 | msuextension@montana.edu Interim Director of Extension CODY STONE MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE Communications Director JENNY LAVEY College of Agriculture | MT Agricultural Experiment Station 406.994.7866 | jennifer.lavey@montana.edu No public funds are used in the publishing of farm406 magazine. CULINARY SPECIALIST Chandee Bomgardner is a Montana native with roots firmly planted in faith, family, farming and food. Her love for culinary arts is best witnessed in her art studio (commercial kitchen) where she creates new recipes and blends life into old family favorites. Chandee and her husband own Bomgardner Catering. farm406 8 Diane Charlton is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. She completed her Ph.D. at University of California, Davis. Her primary areas of research include labor economics, agricultural markets, the economics of labor migration, and the economics of education. Eric Belasco is an Associate Professor in the Depart- ment of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. He received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from North Carolina State University in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He conducts research in the areas of agricultural marketing, risk management, farm policy, and financial engineering. Jenny Lavey is the Communications Manager for the Montana State University College of Agriculture and Montana Agricultural Experiment Station in Bozeman. A former newspaper reporter, Jenny enjoys telling the story of Montana's agricultural industry and the science impacting the Big Sky's state cornerstone economy. Val Farmer has been a strong voice and presence in agriculture since the early 80s. He has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arizona and practiced in North and South Dakota for 31 years. He specialized in rural mental health topics and has written a handful of books that deal with multiple facets of stress on the farm. Ali Spoon is a Missoula-based photographer specializing in weddings, portraits, and commercial photography. Ali has been published in the Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, and the Dallas News.

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