Idaho builders are using agricultural waste like straw bales and hemp to create energy-efficient, eco-friendly structures and ...

Farms are an integral part of Idaho’s economy. And though farming is hard work, for most farmers the pay is modest. The average income per farm in Idaho in 2022 was $42,336 a year.

He’s watched as acre after acre of farmland has given way to houses. ... Idaho farms employ an estimated 44,000 hired workers, 21,000 unpaid workers and 5,000 migrant workers.

Roeser grew up on a small farm in southern Idaho. Ada County, which had over 430,000 acres of farmland at its peak in 1945, now has just one-fourth that much, about 110,000 acres.

Diversification Drives Success on This Idaho Farm ... “We couldn’t get our foot in the door because we didn’t have the contacts with malt house and craft breweries to complete the chain.

POCATELLO — Idaho led the West last year in total farm revenue on a per capita basis. The per capita farm revenue number is derived by dividing a state’s total farm revenue by its total ...

Railcar abandoned on Idaho farm now a destination stay. Published 12:53 pm Thursday, January 9, 2025. By Matthew Weaver ... “It was a cat house for 20 years,” Fleener said.

"We do farm right next to Highway 95 on both sides, east and west of the highway," Freeman said. "So, when needing to cross the highway or move to the next field, our equipment takes up a lot of ...

Ada County commissioners made a shortsighted and arbitrary decision in denying a proposal for a solar farm in a rural part of the county. As the Idaho Statesman’s Sarah Cutler reported, Ada ...

Ada County commissioners made a shortsighted and arbitrary decision in denying a proposal for a solar farm in a rural part of the county. As the Idaho Statesman’s Sarah Cutler reported, Ada ...

Matt Wissel grows vegetables and melons on about 80 acres in Nampa, just as his father and grandfather did. He runs his family’s farm, Wissel Farms, with his wife, Benita. He’s watched as acre ...