06/19/07 ICA mid-year meeting; FSA committees

There are plenty of issues to talk about when the Idaho Cattle Association holds is annual mid-year conference in Jackpot, Nevada beginning tomorrow. There's a conservation easement workshop and an update on Idaho's brucellosis free status. Also at the three day event there will be a focus on producer education, along with evaluating ICA progress on its priority issues and beginning the process of setting policy for the coming months. That policy will be guided by a new executive director to replace Lloyd Knight who resigned to take a state government job. ICA president Jeff Faulkner says candidates will be interviewed at the meeting and he hopes the new director can be hired by July first. The Farm Service Agency is taking nominations for county committees. Producers have to get those nominations into FSA by August first. Elected FSA county committees are the local voice in administering federal farm programs at the local level. To hold office as a county committee member, a producer must participate or cooperate in a program administered by FSA, be eligible to vote in a county committee election, and must reside in the local administrative area conducting this year's election. Voice of Idaho Agriculture Bill Scott