agriculture

The deadline to request a comment period on an air quality permit for a Mini-Cassia potato processing facility is fast approaching.

Congressional committees and farm groups have crafted language to fix a provision in the federal tax overhaul that gave an unintended tax advantage to farmers who sell their crops to cooperatives instead of other buyers.

Idaho is a state that is home to a variety of species of bumblebee – but many of them face an uncertain future.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says farmers have harvested record crops for soybeans, peanuts, canola, rapeseed and hops.

Dr. Tommy Ahlquist is one of the three Republicans with hopes of capturing the May GOP Primary.

It does appear many of the issues facing the legislature are brought about by the state’s rapidly growing population.

Experts say hay prices are down in Idaho due to low milk prices that are depressing the market.

Some farmers in northern Idaho and western Washington are looking for solutions after years of applying nitrogen-based fertilizer has left their land with acidic soil.

Some housing authorities in southwestern Idaho are struggling to keep up with a rising demand for affordable housing that is the result of a large increase in farm businesses seeking temporary foreign guest workers under the H-2A visa program.

Central Idaho officials have changed land-use rules, clearing the way for actor Bruce Willis to finishing building a private airport.

State officials say Idaho's agriculture exports so far this year have increased 12 percent over last year.

Farmers in southern Idaho are increasingly turning to the guest worker program to fill the gap left by the shrinking labor force in the state.

President Donald Trump has appointed two Idahoans to serve in state director positions for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is looking to make peace on biofuels standards with senators from big corn-growing states who could upend President Donald Trump's nominees for important EPA jobs.

Yields are down, but prices are up for this year's onion crop in the Treasure Valley of Idaho and Oregon. A harsh winter, wet spring and hot summer combined to make this a difficult year for farmers.

Two people were taken to the hospital after a semitrailer hit a farm tractor pulling a trailer full of hay Friday evening. The crash happened at 2450 East and 1300 South at a little after 6 p.m. when Jack M. Gray, age 65, of Gooding was driving a truck pulling two flatbed trailers when he hit the tractor pulling hay.

A national family run burger and custard restaurant has grown a tribute corn maze to thank area farmers. Culver's announced the Thank You Farmers maze will open to the public September 29 and will operate Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. until November 4.

Agricultural land values in the Northwest increased this year while the national average is unchanged. The Capital Press reported on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates the average value of cropland increased in Idaho, Oregon and Washington from the previous year.

College of Southern Idaho students who are seeking an agriculture-related degree, including a few who may not have even been born yet, have a new friend.

Five-week-old goats draw the attention of fair visitors who stop by Animal Specialties, the visiting petting farm from Arkansas.