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Program: Farm Bureau Report, Voice of Idaho Ag News

Farm Bureau Report, Voice of Idaho Ag News

  • 7-29 FB TIP program

    Dick Rush, Idaho State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency, is encouraging Idaho Producers to take advantage of the Transition Incentives Program (TIP)

  • 7-28 FB Late Blight in Potatoes

    Late blight can destroy a potato field very quickly. The first symptoms of late blight in the field are small, light to dark green, circular to irregular-shaped water-soaked spots.

  • 7-27 FB Blair on Food Inc.

    Food, Inc. exposes America's industrialized food system and its effect on our environment, health, economy and workers' rights.

  • 7-26 FB Legumes in Idaho

    Legumes or as the French say Legumes are of interest to Idaho farmers because they produce revenue and lots of it.

  • 7-23 FB Milfoil Progress

    Fighting milfoil in Idaho bodies of water.

  • 7-22 FB Farmers Fight Back

    A very graphic, disturbing video of dairy cows and calves being kicked, hit and prodded by pitch forks was released recently by animal rights group.

  • 7-21 FB Potatoes in WIC

    The Idaho Statesman reported that for years, Idaho potato growers and distributors have been angered by a USDA restriction on including potatoes in a federal food program.

  • 7-20 FB Earthworms and Ag

    Earthworms are a very positive thing to have in soils.

  • Camas Hay

    Cold, wet spring weather was a hindrance to some crops, but over in Camas County, hay producers couldn’t be happier.

  • 7-16 FB Mink vs. Development

    Mink farm in Heyburn says that a proposed development near their property could ruin the love lives of their animals.

  • 7-15 FB Energy Development

    A recent headline in the Statesman called Idaho the “Green Energy State”. That sounds exciting but there’s a catch.

  • 7-14 FB Golden Bee

    Honeybee business is buzzing in the Treasure Valley.

  • 7-13 FB Simpson on Beef

    Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson is a member of the newly re-formed Congressional Caucus on Beef.

  • 7-12 FB Bulgin Retires

    Dr. Marie Bulgin who was suspended from her University of Idaho professorship.

  • 7-9 FB E. Coli 2

    Scientists, including the University of Idaho's Carolyn Hovde Bohach, recently reported they have learned how deadly E. coli bacteria sense the cattle gastrointestinal tract.

  • 7-8 FB E Coli Solutions 1

    An estimated 70 to 80 percent of healthy cattle herds in the United States at least sometimes carry the deadly E. coli with no ill effects.

  • 7-7 FB Idaho Hops

    A few facts about hops which are very high-brow.

  • 7-6 FB Poison Hemlock

    Poison Hemlock, a dangerous noxious weed, is now in full growth around Idaho.

  • 7-5 FB Roundup Ready Injunction

    The United States Supreme Court ruled that a federal judge had erred in banning the planting of Monsanto’s genetically modified alfalfa seed last year.

  • 7-2 FB Skeptical Beekeeper

    A local beekeeper doesn't believe in research.

  • 7-1 FB Growing Jet Fuel

    The U.S. Air Force just announced the successful flight of an A-10 Thunderbolt using a biofuel blend of camelina, an oilseed crop mixed with conventional jet fuel.

  • 6-30 FB De-Worming Advice

    As instances of internal parasite resistance to deworming treatments are becoming more numerous , herd managers must pay closer attention to the use of valuable herd-health tools.

  • 6-29 FB Cattle Insurance

    The Risk Management Agency’s (RMA) Spokane Regional Office would like to remind Pacific Northwest livestock producers that the Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) program is available in all counties in Idaho.

  • 6-28 FB Wheat Doing Fine

    We’ve heard recently from a U of I Ag Extension Specialist that some crops have been negatively affected by the cold and rain.

  • 6-25 FB Prison Farmers

    An all new way for the prison population of Idaho to make an impact…and this one is positive

  • 6-24 FB Clogged Irrigation

    All clogged up? Sprinklers won’t spray, drip irrigation won’t drip? We’ve found some solutions.

  • 6-23 FB CAFO Moratorium

    There’s a moratorium on CAFO operations in Power County, Idaho.

  • 6-22 FB No Heat Units

    The cold and the rain have put a definite slow down on production crops.

  • Weed Tour

    Review of cold, wet spring.

  • 6-18 FB Dairy Forage

    The University of Idaho’s Dr. Mereille Chahine recently conducted a study that showed dairy producers saw the value in feeding forage even when the economic crisis was at its worst.

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