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Citing substantially higher costs for its programs, the Idaho Barley Commission for the second straight year has increased the assessment growers must pay.The 14.3% increase the commission approved unanimously June 6 is from 3.5 cents per hundredweight to 4 cents, the...
Last spring, I wrote about the Department of Water Resources’ change to the methodology — or process — they use to estimate water shortfalls and determine curtailments. The Department’s new methodology, which entirely ignores reasonable use of Idaho’s water, is...
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho. (AP) — Six people killed when a pickup crashed into a passenger van in Idaho on Saturday were agricultural workers from Mexico, officials said.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico said in a news release that the van passengers were all...
Low temperatures and wind, affecting crop emergence and herbicide application, are some of the challenges Idaho growers are finding as this year’s row crops get going. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content....
Cereal grain growers in parts of Idaho are dealing with cold damage, nitrogen leaching and perfect conditions for stripe rust.“The conditions that we’ve had in the last couple of weeks have been kind of cold in southeast Idaho,” said Juliet Marshall, University of...