Ag Tour

Ag Tour

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
The annual Treasure Valley Agricultural Tour took place with a bus full of state legislators, county commissioners, local city leaders and ag industry leaders. The tour visited the Gogo squeezed fruit and vegetable plant where flavored sauces are produced, Forage Genetics where alfalfa seeds are developed, Koenig vineyards where the 2019 wine grape crop looks strong. And Fort Boise Produce where the 2019 onion crop comes in. Owner Joe Farmer says it's an average crop with good quality.

 

“I'd say we have an average crop. We don't have due to an early spring with a lot of rains. Growers want to plant them until about the 20th of April in some fields. So the crop was a little bit behind it finally caught up. But I'd say it's an average crop, whereas last year we would have had more of a bumper crop than this year. So the quality looks great.”

 

Canyon County Commissioner Leslie Van Beek says tours like this help her in making tough decisions impacting the county.

 

“It's pretty fabulous. You came out here to Sunny Slope and you look around at the value that this county places on agriculture and people that lead the way. Appreciate Roger Batt’s leadership in that. And we as county commissioners try to support and look at ag ground. And when you're looking at development and that's always the battle between, you know, the prime ground and going through development.”

 

The group also got to meet the MacIntyre family, selected this year as the Farm Family of the Year in Canyon County,

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