Today's Idaho Ag News
Today's Idaho Ag News
Non-Profit Lawyers 1
Today's Idaho Ag News
In just six years non- profit environmental groups filed more than 15-hundred lawsuits and in turn the Federal Government paid out more than $4.7 billion in taxpayer dollars in settlements and legal fees.
Grocery Prices Go Down
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Food prices go down at retail outlets...great for consumers...not so great for producers.
Twitter in the Dairy
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The dairy checkoff launched a new program to help dairy producers understand and make use of social media to tell their story about dairy farming to the public.
Cow Methane A Lot of Hot Air
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The U.S. dairy industry wants to engineer the "cow of the future" to produce less methane, a project aimed at cutting the industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.
Blackfoot Mine
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Leaders from a broad spectrum of Idaho's agriculture community announced support of Monsanto's proposed Blackfoot Bridge phosphate mine,
Fall ESPA Re-Charge
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The Idaho Water Resource Board (IWRB) recently approved a plan for late-season recharge of the Eastern Snake Plan Aquifer (ESPA).
DCP - ACRE
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Dick Rush, Executive Director of USDA's Farm Service Agency in Idaho recently announced that USDA has begun enrollment for the 2010 Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP) and the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE).
Hulless Barley
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Growers are taking another look at barley, these days and that may end up altering the types of varieties planted in southern Idaho.
Evapotransportation
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Evapotranspiration (ET) uses satellite data to compute and map how much water is being emitted or given off by the earth's surface.
Stalk Lodging Corn
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Mosaic Company Agronomist Dr. Dan Froehlich says there's likely some concern about stalk lodging.
Surplus Wheat
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Alan Tracy, USW President , says after riding a commodity price roller coaster over the last two or three years, everyone involved in the wheat business should realize that change has become a constant;
Mary Rohlfing-Sustainable Farmer
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Helping those who are either new to farming—or new to sustainable farming—identify and use these advantages, is the goal of a nine-week University of Idaho Extension course that begins Oct. 14 in Meridian.
Corn Cob Digester
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A self-sustaining energy cycle for producing cellulosic ethanol is close to reality with the recent startup of an anaerobic digester at POET's pilot plant in Scotland, S.D.
Chinese Food
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Listen to this. In California, officials are buying foreign produce instead of domestic food to be handed out to jobless farm workers.
Maze in a Field of Maze
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University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is holding Ag Days to recruit ag students.
Disaster Planning
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Dick Rush, Executive Director of USDA's Farm Service Agency in Idaho today announced that producers may now begin applying for benefits under the provisions of the Livestock Forage Disaster Program.
Soil Conservation
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The impact of grassroots (locally-led) conservation efforts was felt on Capitol Hill recently as representatives from the Camas Soil Conservation District and others across the nation visited with their Congressional leaders.
Disappearing Snowpack
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Water researchers across the state are collaboratively embarking on a three-year hydrologic study.
U of I Ag Days
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U of I has their Ag Days recruits lots of new students.
Bean Report
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The Idaho Bean Commission who say this could be one of the best harvests of the decade, despite a cold, wet spring.
Mastitis in Dairies
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Mastitis is the single most costly dairy disease - with the overall cost of clinical mastitis estimated at roughly 100-dollars per case.
Miscanthus 2
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A perrenial grass called miscanthus... grown without irrigation, without fertilizer, energy inputs are far less. Producing 15 times more ethanol than the same acreage under corn.