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Program: Today's Idaho Ag News
Today's Idaho Ag News
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7-29 IAN Pot Feedback
Feed back on pot story.
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7-28 IAN Oil from Algae
Algae oil has potential feedstock to help biodiesel producers become self-sustainable. It's one solution to help the US reduce its dependence on foreign oil and create new green jobs.
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Western Watershed Pipeline
El Paso Corp. has reached a precedent-setting, $20 million arrangement for habitat protection with two environmental organizations that protested the company’s planned Ruby Pipeline.
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7-27 IAN Cattle Reproduction
According to Veterinarian Dr. John Rodgers - spring's a great time for a producer to think about re-evaluating their reproductive vaccine protocol.
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7-26 IAN Marvel Pipeline
The great earth watcher from Sun Valley, Jon Marvel has reached an intriguing agreement with the El Paso Corporation.
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7-23 IAN Anaerobic digestion
Anaerobic digestion is a biological process that produces a gas principally composed of methane and carbon dioxide otherwise known as biogas.
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7-22 IAN Day in the Life
A day in the life of an Idaho farmer and how the cold wet spring has affected him and others.
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7-21 IAN Agri Service
Cleve Buttars owns one of the biggest farm equipment dealerships in North America.
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7-20 IAN Geo-caching for weeds
Ada county now has a new plan. They’re hiding little containers around the GreenBelt and asking people to locate them with their GPS’s.
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7-19 IAN Follow EPA Rules
The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to tighten the oversight of animal feedlots, where bacteria, viruses, and parasites from animal waste can pollute.
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7-16 IAN Roundup Reversal
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s nationwide ban on the cultivation of biotech alfalfa.
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7-15 IAN Wild Horses
Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey recently announced that the agency is taking the Federal Wild Horse and Burro Program in an unprecedented new direction.
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7-14 IAN Lansat 8
Monitoring water use from space…as in satellites
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7-13 IAN Dairy Solar Water Heating
Another way to help the dairy business is to reduce input costs and Mike Garner at Webb Farms has an intriguing idea.
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7-12 IAN Farmers and Social Media
Farmers from even the most remote small towns are engaging life-long city dwellers in stories of their farm through social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.
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7-9 IAN Chinese Wheat
The Chinese are manufacturing just about everything you could possibly want and now they’re getting seriously into wheat.
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7-8 IAN Extensions Closing
How long will ag extension services exist in Idaho. Well the squeeze is on nationally.
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7-7 IAN Debating Immigration
There’s a raging debate about immigration here in Idaho.
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7-6 IAN Storing Spuds
Believe it or not, there’s a whole science devoted to the issue of potato storage.
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7-5 IAN Noxious Weeds
Idaho has about 800 of the nations 2,000 weed species.
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7-2 IAN Propane Savings 3
To foster rural economic development and growth, Congress passed the Rural Energy for America Program or (REAP) known as Section 9007 of the 2008 Farm Bill.
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7-1 IAN Propane Savings 2
As Idaho farmers along with all Americans are encouraged to look for energy independence and energy sources other than gasoline and diesel, one natural resource that keeps popping up is propane.
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6-30 IAN Propane Savings 1
As farmers face rising input costs and volatile markets - they're looking for ways to reduce operating costs.
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6-29 IAN WWP Appeal
An administrative judge has put a stop to the Bureau of Land Management's cancellation of an WWP’s lease of federal land, at least for now.
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6-28 IAN Is EPA Crazy
Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson joined Western colleagues in expressing concern about EPA’s efforts to regulate energy production from biomass combustion under the Clean Air Act.
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6-25 IAN Marijuana 3
What if a wheat, hay, onion, barley, corn or sugar beet producer could legally raise marijuana.
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6-24 IAN Marijuana 2
There’s a booming medical marijuana industry.
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6-23 IAN Marijuana 1
The Marijuana Policy Project P, the nation’s largest marijuana policy reform organization is trying to legalize the use of this weed for medical and recreational purposes.
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6-22 IAN Terror and Ag
The Department of Homeland Security has introduced a new security measure for chemical facilities - and it could impact the agricultural community.
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6-21 IAN Solar Powered Winery
There’s a new little old winemaker in Moscow Idaho who’s gone green and high tech.
