Governor Otter Is A Real Farmer

 In a state that depends so much on agriculture, who better to run Idaho than a former farmer? I’ll let you eavesdrop on a recent conversation in a minute. I recently had an interview with Governor Butch and although I was asking all kinds of different questions, listen to how often he referred to farming and how much he knows about it. These sound bites are in no particular order…but they’re certainly revealing. (Governor Otter) “Here’s the old farmer in me, the old farmer/rancher, when you’re producing 100 pounds of milk, and it costs you $16.25 to produce it and you’re selling it for $10.50, you can’t make that up on volume.    Having grown up on farms and ranches all my life, there were a lot of chores that I did on a daily basis on that farm that aided me in getting a lot of jobs off the farm because I knew how to drive farm trucks, I knew how to run a Browning gear shift in a big insulage truck where I had to plow the fields, grade the fields, level the fields and things like that.   Don’t water on this day or don’t use nitrogen this early in the crop season when the potato plant is just starting to rosette.    We’ve got the greatest herbicide/insecticide that comes along every year for about 4 months it freezes and kills the bugs and some of the viruses.”