Montana Real Estate by Jack Nickels

06/18/2026

This is happening right now in California, fellow Montanans don't think it can't happen here in Montana as well. There have been fights over water and grazing in the west for over 100 years. Watch the video to the end.

A plan is underway in California to replace the groundwater that ha...

06/17/2026

Can any of my Agricultural Friends confirm this for me? Asking for my rancher friends.

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Elon Musk’s so‑called “Department of Government Efficiency” cut an effective screwworm monitoring program to “save” about $15 million a year — and within a year we’re staring down a screwworm crisis the USDA now expects to cost over a billion dollars to contain. That’s not efficiency, that’s sabotage.

Now we have confirmed screwworm cases in U.S. livestock and pets for the first time in about 60 years, and USDA is scrambling to rebuild capacity, rushing sterile fly facilities in Mexico and Texas and throwing more than a billion dollars at a problem we already knew how to prevent. This is what happens when you put a billionaire with no public‑health background and no respect for science in charge of hunting for cuts: he doesn’t see safeguards, he sees “inconvenient” line items that get in the way of his ideology and his bottom line.

And let’s be clear: DOGE was never just about “efficiency.” Trump’s order gave Musk’s operation sweeping access to federal data systems under the guise of streamlining government, with reports that DOGE‑linked operatives reached into sensitive databases at agencies like Social Security, OPM, Treasury, and Education. They were perfectly willing to ignore privacy protections that have been on the books for 50 years — but when it came to a relatively tiny $15 million program that protected ranchers, rural communities, and the broader economy, suddenly that’s where they “tightened belts.”

This isn’t fiscal conservatism, it’s deliberate cruelty dressed up as cost‑cutting. The programs they kill are always the same ones: the ones that regulate corporate power, protect ordinary people, or quietly prevent the next catastrophe. And when the crisis hits — when cattle and goats in Texas and pets in New Mexico start turning up with a parasite we supposedly eradicated generations ago — they point fingers at anyone but themselves.

06/16/2026

JOHN DEERE, take notice. Maybe the auto industry had better do the same thing. If you buy a machine, car or pickup, you should be able to repair it yourself if you can, with out being locked out of using it by the manufacturer.

Farmers have been buying 198...

06/11/2026

For years the U.S. Department of Agriculture had a very robust system in place for keeping the "Screw Worm" out of the country. However, against the advice of the experts, the Trump adminstration did deep cuts in the program that will have serious impact on the livestock industry if the infection is not dealt with fast.

However, once again the Trump adminstration has clsoed the barn door after the horses have bolted out the door on this issue.

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Texas is now dealing with multiple confirmed cases of flesh-eating screwworms, a parasite so destructive that the United States spent decades and billions of dollars trying to eradicate it. And the most infuriating part is that experts warned this could happen.

Screwworms don’t just “infect” animals. They literally eat living tissue. They can infest cattle, wildlife, pets, and in rare cases even humans. Ranchers have feared their return for generations because outbreaks devastate livestock, overwhelm veterinarians, and create massive economic damage.

For years, scientists and agricultural experts argued that surveillance, monitoring, and rapid-response systems were essential to keeping outbreaks contained before they spread. But in today’s political climate, expertise itself has become a target. Anything involving science, prevention, research funding, or government monitoring gets mocked as “waste,” “bureaucracy,” or “big government.”

That mindset has consequences.

You cannot slash oversight, demonize experts, hollow out public institutions, and then act stunned when preventable crises come roaring back. Prevention is invisible when it works. That’s the whole point. Nobody notices the disaster that never happened.

And now Texans are watching a nightmare parasite reappear while politicians who spent years attacking government capacity suddenly pretend these systems matter after all.

This is the broader problem with modern Republican governance under Donald Trump: contempt for expertise right up until reality crashes through the front door.

Because eventually, nature does not care about political talking points. And flesh-eating parasites definitely don’t care about culture wars.

05/26/2026

💯 Percent. 🤣🤣🤣🤠

05/26/2026

The American livestock industry has been dealing with this issue since the 1980's, it only remains to be seen if the Trump Adminstration can actually do something about it, or will the major meat packing companies, buy off Congress and the admistration yet again.

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05/24/2026

So perfect!