BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A $200,000 budget request by Gov. Brad Little for an Idaho board that manages money to pay a federal and state agency to kill wolves that attack livestock and big game is sufficient for fiscal year 2020, a board member told lawmakers Wednesday.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lawmakers have advanced legislation to help state officials cap what are thought to be hundreds of artesian wells across southern Idaho in a plan that could help irrigators…
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The three Northwest legislatures go to work this month, addressing a wide variety of issues that will impact their state’s farmers and ranchers. In Oregon and Washington, the changing climate …
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The state of Washington said Tuesday it opposes a federal proposal to reclassify as less dangerous some radioactive waste on a site in the state that contains the nation'…
Also plans to continue stepped-up collaboration on land management
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Idaho farm income fell for a second straight year in 2018 largely due to overproduction by dairy farmers, according to a recent economic report.
EAGLE, Idaho — (AP BUSINESS WIRE) Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LW) announced today its fiscal second quarter 2019 results and updated its full year outlook.
Farmers would pay at season end for actual acres burned
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — In the early 2000s, the world's only freshwater cod was all but gone from the waters of the Kootenai River in North Idaho and British Columbia. Once counted in the thousa…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials and at least one state said Friday that they have started investigations into a nationwide CenturyLink internet outage that has disrupted 911 service.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Census Bureau says that for the second year in a row, Idaho has earned the title of fastest-growing state in the country.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Attorneys for the state of Idaho are appealing a judge's decision that blocked grizzly bear hunts and restored federal protections for the animals in and around Yellowst…
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Environmental groups have filed notice they intend to sue the U.S. government for letting hunters use bait to lure bears in national forests in Idaho and Wyoming.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — State and federal officials signed an agreement Tuesday they said will help protect Idaho's national forest lands, which they said are at risk of insect infestations and de…
Inland port builds in new areas in wake of oceangoing-container loss
Delegates from county Farm Bureau organizations voted unanimously to support an Idaho Legislature mandate to state Fish and Game officials to allow USDA Wildlife Services to more aggressively …
Board aims to get more aggressive in monitoring, control.
A high-tech dairy system milks, monitors herd health and production automatically.
A federal judge in Idaho has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the family of Adams County rancher Jack Yantis, who was shot and killed by deputy sheriffs at his ranch on Nov. 1, 2015.
A federal judge in Idaho has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the family of Adams County rancher Jack Yantis, who was shot and killed by deputy sheriffs at his ranch on Nov. 1, 2015.
The Northwest is already seeing the effects of climate change, according to a new national climate assessment. The 1,600-page report outlines dire consequences across the country as global tem…
Snake River Basin reservoirs are at normal levels despite a dry start to the snow-accumulation year, Idaho Power Co. reported.
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Canyon and Payette counties in southwest Idaho have been designated primary natural disaster areas due to drought.
PORTLAND — Limagrain Cereal Seeds, an international agricultural cooperative and fourth-largest seed company in the world, will launch a new line of wheat varieties developed in partnership wi…
PORTLAND — With three times the fiber of oatmeal and a wide assortment of health benefits, barley has the potential to permanently change American food, says Bryce McKay with Highland Specialt…
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A University of Idaho team is among four worldwide to advance to the final stage of a $10 million worldwide innovation competition focused on improving water quality.
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Food producers who suffered disaster-related losses of livestock, fish, bees and certain trees have until Dec. 3 to apply for relief programs, the Idaho USDA Farm Service Agency says.
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Idaho will accept preliminary proposals for special projects through Feb. 1.
BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in southeastern Idaho say there are no reports of damage following a 3.8-magnitude earthquake.
SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Most of the issues the Public Lands Council and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association are dealing with during the lame duck session of Congress involve the Endangered Speci…
PARIS (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump is partly right but far from completely correct when he says that France’s “big tariffs” make it hard for American vintners to sell their wines to the French.
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Officials say farmers in Idaho and Washington saw above-average returns on wheat crop this year, but lentil prices are plunging.
The Leadership Idaho Agriculture Foundation announced participants for its 39th class, to be held over the next four months.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Idaho Water Resource Board next spring expect to be closer to formally proposing additional storage in the Boise River Basin, namely at Anderson Ranch dam an…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Boise Cascade L.L.C. (BCC) on Tuesday reported third-quarter earnings of $13.8 million.
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Tom Dorsey, a Caldwell, Idaho, dairy farmer was awarded the Richard E Lyng Award for his years of service to dairy promotion, both regionally and nationally.
Loans to underserved or beginning farmers and ranchers rose in Idaho in the most recent fiscal year, the state’s Farm Service Agency office reported.
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The Idaho Barley Commission at its Oct. 25 board meeting in Rupert presented Gongshe Hu with the 2018 Idaho Barley Service Award. He is a barley breeder with the USDA Agricultural Research Ser…
While you’re finding out from the Idaho Crop Improvement Association if the seed you’re about to plant is up to par, you just might hear something about garbanzo beans moving south or even get…
University of Idaho Extension in December plans seminars covering the state’s agricultural market outlook.
University of Idaho Extension is offering a six-week course in farm and ranch management in Burley and Jerome beginning in January.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has designated Washington County in southwest Idaho as a primary natural disaster area due to drought, allowing the USDA Farm Service Agency to extend e…
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