About Montana Farm Ranch Land Geography
Montana is mostly known for it’s Big Sky country, large ranches for recreation and cattle ranches and agricultural farms for production. The Continental Divide splits the majority of the state into the eastern and western regions. In western Montana, as compared with the eastern plains area, winters tend to be milder while summers are cooler. The abundance of natural resources creates an extremely fertile environment for Montana’s largest industry agriculture. Montana has around 28,000 farms and ranches covering more than 60 million acres of the state’s 94 million total acres. Most of Montana is covered by mountain ranges in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Between mountain ranges are the lush river valleys offering scenic gold medal fly fishing waters, rivers and streams. The Big Hole Valley, Bitterroot Valley, Gallatin Valley, Flathead Valley, and Paradise Valley offer rich agricultural farm and ranch land investment opportunities. Many of the well known rivers in Montana flowing through scenic public lands and real estate stewarded by land owners of farms and ranches are the Beaverhead River, Big Hole River, Big Horn River, Big Muddy Creek, Bitterroot River, Blackfoot River, Clark Fork, Clarks Fork, Flathead River, Gallatin River, Jefferson River, Judith River, Kootenai River, Little Missouri River, Madison River, Marias River, Milk River, Missouri River, Musselshell River, O'Fallon Creek, Poplar River, Powder River, Red Rock River, Rosebud Creek, South Fork Flathead River, Sun River, Teton River, Tongue River and Yellowstone River.
