agriculture

The Twin Falls Canal Company will reduce water deliveries to irrigators Thursday morning as river flows have not improved

The Twin Falls Canal Company is looking at the possibility of reducing water deliveries even more after having to cut deliveries earlier this year based on Snake River flows.

A pilot program to help grow food and agricultural entrepreneurship will begin this fall in the Magic Valley.

A new rail terminal is expected to be built in Pocatello aimed at reducing the number of trucks needed to ship goods from the region to the west coast.

A new study will get underway to see if a food innovation center and business incubator will benefit the Magic Valley.

A Lincoln County dairy and its owner has agreed to pay a fine for violating the Clean Water Act after discharging manure water into a nearby canal in 2017.

Magic Valley wildlife managers have completed an elk roundup in the Little Camas area as part of a herd reduction effort to lessen the damage on area crops.

We’ll soon have census numbers.

We’ve got laws but we also have courtesies.

A truck hauling liquid fertilizer overturned in Declo Wednesday at the intersection of two state highways.

He warns it’s an idea bordering on foolhardy.

Dean Foods blamed a decadeslong drop in milk consumption that has seen people turn to alternatives like soda, juice and almond milk.
The Dallas company said it may sell itself to the Dairy Farmers of America, a marketing cooperative owned by thousands of farmers.

Washington state cherry growers have not seen significant weather damage during the harvest season that began earlier this month.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has lowered its estimate of this year's corn crop to the lowest in four years, saying wet weather has delayed planting and reduced acres planted and the expected per-acre yield.

An international energy company says it plans to build facilities to convert cow manure into electricity in Cassia County

Now they apparently plan to place limits and quotas on other crops.

The state of Washington could spend nearly $1 million over the next two years on nonlethal ways to prevent wolves from killing livestock in the northeastern corner of the state.

The Senate has approved legislation to legalize hemp in Idaho. The Senate voted 32-3 Monday to approve the bill that would legalize the growing and selling of hemp products containing 0.3 percent or less of THC, the cannabis compound that gives marijuana its high.

An Idaho dairy has plans to build a milk processing plant in Twin Falls, potentially creating more than 100 jobs.

The more agricultural based sector here isn’t going to go unscathed.