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Committee approves adding goats to county predator‑control petitions after stakeholder testimony
Summary
After testimony from livestock groups and Department of Livestock officials about coyote predation and how county petition funding works, the committee moved to do‑concur on House Bill 767 to allow goat producers to opt into county predator‑control petitions; the bill advanced with an amendment addressing petition details.
The Senate Agriculture committee advanced House Bill 767, which would add goats to county predator‑control petition authority and allow producers to levy a per‑capita fee to fund local predator control.
Representative Julie Darling introduced the bill, and proponents (including Callie Michaels of the Montana Wool Growers Association and Nicole Rolfe of the Montana Farm…
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