01/08/08 Young Farmers and Ranchers, Tubbs

Austin and Mayse Tubbs are raising their three children on their Malad Valley farm. AUSTIN "My name is Austin Tubbs. Our main production is growing beef cattle, a cow calf operation. We run around 300 to 400 mother cows and we have about 400 acres of irrigated ground, a couple thousand acres of dry land that we operate." They're both involved with the Idaho Farm Bureau's Young Farmer and Rancher program and for good reason. MAYCE "I think it's really important that all the young farmers and ranchers to get together and we get to communicate with each other. And I like go to the convention once a year because it gives you a boost to be able to go to the next year knowing that there's other people out there that are struggling and doing and we can do it, we can raise a family and it gives me a boost to go to the next year." AUSTIN "When you talk about growing agriculture I don't necessarily think of growing more cows or growing more hay or anything like that but raising the next generation that learns how to work and wants to be a part of agriculture also so that it can continue on." Austin and Mayse Tubbs, Young Farmers and Ranchers growing Idaho's future. Voice of Idaho Agriculture Bill Scott