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Idaho builders are using agricultural waste like straw bales and hemp to create energy-efficient, eco-friendly structures and ...
A Nampa farmer keeps growing crops as acre after acre nearby gives way to houses. ... Idaho farms employ an estimated 44,000 hired workers, 21,000 unpaid workers and 5,000 migrant workers.
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.
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.
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.
Most of those gathered, which included U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho; state Sen. Jim Guthrie, R-McCammon, and leaders from the Idaho Farm Bureau, Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Several agriculture and industry leaders called on Congress to pass a new farm bill during a visit to Boise on Friday that was organized by the Western Caucus Foundation.
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 ...
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.