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While there are many pros, there are a few things that make living in Idaho, specifically, the Magic Valley, suck.

A newly developed app may be changing the game, and it may make getting locally grown products easier. The app will benefit the farmers and the customers as well.

"Wrangler Butts Drive Me Crazy," and "Guns, Coffee, Jesus," are two profile descriptions from women looking for an Idaho farmer in the cities of Chubbuck and Post Falls.

There’s a bluntness to people who work in these jobs.

Twelve farm workers and ten others were treated at the West Valley Medical Center in Caldwell and decontaminated by a hazmat team on Sunday night.

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.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has killed a rule designed to protect the legal rights of farmers who raise chickens and hogs for the nation's largest meat processors.

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.

Many wheat farmers facing low prices have turned this year to other crops, including chickpeas and lentils, in hopes of turning a profit.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food is considering a new rule that would allow some farmers to grow limited varieties of cannabis for research purposes.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — State Deputy Attorney General Kay Christensen told Idaho Wheat Commission members their plan to ensure the IWC has the names and contact information of all the wheat growers in the state is on solid legal ground.

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Some wheat farmers in the northwest are considering switching crops as prices slip below the break-even mark.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials have extended the deadline for farmers to dispose of spoiled or damaged onions following the collapse of many onion storage facilities in southwestern Idaho due to heavy snow.

GORHAM, Maine (AP) — Hop growers are looking to new places to grow the crop, which is facing an unprecedented demand in the face of the county's growing thirst for hoppy beer.

A historic move for the United States to open trade with Cuba could impact Idaho, at least when it comes to sugar beet exports.

After a slow start to the growing season, Idaho farmers are now looking at the possibility of one of the best harvests in about a decade. That means good things for the entire state's economy.

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Twin Falls County Commissioners are working on a proposed livestock control ordinance that may help with some of the safety issues involved when livestock get out of their fences and wind up on public roads.  Fines are proposed in the ordinance for livestock owners who persistently do little to keep their livestock from getting out.  A first time violation would could cost violators $50 per day pe

Not only is the cool west spring delaying or even postponing outdoor recreation activities it’s also causing havoc with southern Idaho farmers.  The Times News reports today that because of the weather the first cutting of alfalfa hay has been delayed significantly.  This not only delays the delivery of much needed livestock feed but it will push back subsequent cuttings of hay and could result in

The Idaho House tax committee has approved a bill that matches Idaho's tax code with new federal rules allowing businesses and farmers to write off new equipment. Lawmakers estimate the move will cost the budget $10 million this fiscal year and another $10 million in fiscal 2012...