Friday, November 20, 2009
Click here for RSS feedDairy farmers in Southern Idaho have something to be thankful for this month, even in the depths of the industry's worst downturn in decades. They've received 3,600 acre-feet of water to mitigate for the impact that dairy ground water pumping has had on senior water rights holders in the ...
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COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- The Burlington Northern Santa Fe refueling depot in Huetter is in compliance with local environmental regulations. Kootenai County commissioners on Thursday voted unanimously that the massive depot met the conditions set when it was first opened in 2004. ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 3:02 PM
POWELL, Wyo. (AP) -- Western Sugar Cooperative growers in northern Wyoming are digging more sugar beets under the quota system that has been in place since a hard freeze damaged the beets in early October. Western Sugar officials allowed growers to dig another 1.2 tons per contracted ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 12:49 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Hunters will have three more months to hunt wolves in Idaho. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to stretch the season to March 31, 2010 in the Panhandle, Palouse-Hells Canyon, Selway, Middle Fork, Salmon, Southern, and South Idaho zones. Hunting in ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 9:04 AM
Robert Blair is taking precision agriculture to new heights. The North Idaho farmer uses a small, unmanned aircraft with a 9-foot wingspan to gather high-resolution aerial images of his crops. The plane weighs about 10 pounds when equipped with a battery, two digital cameras and a GP ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:18 AM
SUN VALLEY -- Idaho Sen. Tim Corder, R-Mountain Home, was at the Idaho Cattle Association Convention in Sun Valley Tuesday, Nov. 17, to ask cattlemen to help develop animal cruelty legislation. Corder, chairman of the Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee, has been preparing two bills on ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:39 AM
Idaho farmers harvested about 131 million hundredweight of potatoes this year, a 12 percent increase from 2008, according to the latest USDA estimates. The state has produced crops of similar overall size in recent years, but never have Idaho farmers produced as many potatoes per acre as ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:18 AM
United Potato Growers of Idaho said it has reached its goal of representing 80 percent of all fresh spud acres in the state, but it will move forward under new leadership. The co-op declined to say what the percentage was prior to the membership drive or how many new members it picked up. ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:48 AM
Onion farmers in Idaho and Eastern Oregon have established a new cooperative. United Onions USA Inc. was formed in late September. Thirty-five to 40 growers, with a total of 7,200 acres of onions in the Idaho-Eastern Oregon area, have signed on. Membership is growing and should represent ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:49 AM
BOISE -- Idaho has agreed to pay $50,000 and pledged to follow anti-discrimination rules to settle a federal lawsuit against state officials who awarded grazing leases to ranchers, not to the environmentalist who had offered more money. The Idaho Board of Land has also committed to revisi ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:14 PM
Wolf hunt may be extended LEWISTON (AP) -- Idaho wildlife officials are thinking about extending the wolf hunting season in certain hunting zones across the state. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission was scheduled to meet in Coeur d'Alene this week. Idaho Fish and Game deputy director ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:45 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A judge says the government must keep Yellowstone-area grizzly bears on the list of threatened and endangered species, denying an attempt by federal officials to reverse an earlier court ruling. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service two years ago said grizzlies ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:34 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Cloud seeding once was seen similar to well divining, medicine shows and miracle healers. But today Idaho Power Co. is investing up to $1 million to seed the clouds above Idaho's mountains, in hopes of increasing the snowpack that holds the water that will dr ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:18 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The Idaho Transportation Department's governing board has selected a new director for the agency. The Idaho Transportation Board on Thursday picked Brian Ness, who comes to the state after a 30-year career with the Michigan Department of Transportation. Ness ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 AM
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -- Lewiston city leaders are considering a rule that would bar residents from storing piles of farm implements, bicycles, construction materials, appliances or other unsightly debris in their yards. City Code Enforcement Officer Steve Campbell says he's gotten co ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- An official from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be in Idaho to recognize Gooding Elementary School for efforts to improve the health, nutrition and fitness of students. Deputy undersecretary Janey Thornton is scheduled to attend a ceremony at the school Thursday ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:49 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A group that promotes homegrown Idaho products and services will get to spread out in the recently renovated Capitol, after all. The Capitol Commission, which oversees the building, had passed guidelines restricting public events to the fourth floor. But Buy Idaho ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 10:33 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- State officials say hunters have reached their limit for killing wolves in a hunting zone in northern Idaho. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game on Tuesday closed the Dworshak-Elk City zone after hunters reached the quota of 18 wolves for the area. It's t ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:48 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter is fighting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's plan to list a rare plant as threatened, saying ranchers are already working with the state to protect it in southwestern Idaho's sage-covered desert. The governor is challenging the listing ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:18 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Hunters have almost met the state's 75-animal season quota, so Montana on Monday ended its first public hunt for gray wolves since their removal from the endangered species list. The action came two weeks before the season's scheduled close. Hunting wil ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:18 AM
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho wildlife officials are thinking about extending the wolf hunting season in certain hunting zones across the state. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission is scheduled to meet in Coeur d'Alene later this week, and a proposal to extend the season in certain areas m ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:48 AM
. University officials said they were aware of the article and are considering it as they continue their review. Idaho bighorn numbers have dwindled by half since 1990, to about 3,500 animals; many wildlife scientists are convinced contact between domestic sheep and bighorns reintroduced i ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:18 AM
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- An Idaho Falls food co-op that sells organic and locally grown foods is asking members and shoppers to donate $20,000 to it can stay open for at least two more months. The Post Register reports that Eagle Rock Food Cooperative manager Lisa Tobin says the store has bee ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:03 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A small internet service provider in northern Idaho and northeastern Washington state has received more than $800,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to bolster broadband communications in the region. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the grant ...
Monday, November 16, 2009 1:49 PM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A federal judge says he wants a stiffer sentence than recommended for a Layton man accused in the release of hundreds of mink at a South Jordan farm. U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on Thursday said the six-month prison term recommended in a plea deal with 23-year-ol ...
Sunday, November 15, 2009 3:03 PM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Federal officials say they'll look into complaints by the animal rights group PETA about the treatment of animals at University of Utah research facilities. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said one of its agents spent eight months working undercover in the ...
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