In this podcast, editors and reporters talk about how the suicide of a California dairyman has galvanized the dairy industry, look back on the gains from 150 years of the land-grant university system, and discuss the particulars of a Willamette Valley farm that has managed to emerge from bankruptcy.
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The world's largest Idaho Russet on wheels will roll throughout the country for a second tour. Officials with the Idaho Potato Commission intend to send their Great Big Idaho Potato Truck on a second national tour next summer.
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A Washington state horse was euthanized this week after it contracted West Nile virus, and four other horses in Idaho and Oregon were diagnosed with milder cases of the disease.
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In the midst of the largest ever outbreak of West Nile virus in this country, Idaho officials are urging horse owners to take steps to protect their equines against the disease.
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Researchers say populations of potato psyllids — the vector for the zebra chip crop disease — are growing dramatically in the Columbia Basin.
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Research trials that are helping prepare the way for the mechanization of fruit orchards are expected to be one of the highlights of the University of Idaho's Annual Fruit Field Day Sept. 14.
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In this podcast, editors and reporters talk about the plight of California ranchers facing widespread wildfires, the response of dryland wheat farmers to ongoing drought in southern Idaho, and the Capital Press editorial board’s position on how to cope with soaring feed costs.
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Waiving the Renewable Fuel Standard could reduce corn prices by as much as $1.30 a bushel or not at all, according to an analysis by the Farm Foundation and economists at Purdue University.
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Spring wheat production in Idaho is forecast to be down 36 percent this year as hot, dry weather in the southern part of the state has taken its toll on grain fields.
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Using the USDA's dietary guidelines, Idaho has created a visual nutrition guide that shows people how they can eat healthy and local at the same time. My Idaho Plate is an adaptation of the USDA's colorful My Plate, which was unveiled last year.
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The market impact of USDA's plan to buy $170 million worth of meat to "relieve pressure" on drought-stricken livestock producers will likely be minor and short-lived, economists say. And it won't impact high feed costs that are keeping many producers from making a profit.
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Idaho wheat officials are urging farmers not to mix clean grain with grain highly contaminated with fusarium head blight.
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Reporter Kelsey Thalhofer talks about the special report on the Farwest nursery show and reporter Sean Ellis examines rising optimism among Idaho onion growers.
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This summer's drought hasn't soured prospects for sugar beet growers, either in the Pacific Northwest or nationally.
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Using a grant financed through a farm bill provision, Idaho and Oregon onion growers are producing short videos that showcase the homegrown feel of the nation's main onion-growing region.
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The South Korean government will shut off all shipments of fresh potatoes from Oregon, Washington and Idaho beginning Aug. 17 because of concerns over the presence of zebra chip in Pacific Northwest potatoes.
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Widespread drought, poor pasture, and a short corn crop have cattle markets teeming with uncertainty that analysts say will stall a previously anticipated herd expansion in 2013.
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In this podcast, editors and reporters discuss mysterious crop circles in Washington state and a Department of Labor crackdown on berry farms that some are describing as extortion.
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A federal judge has determined that federal wildlife officials made a mistake when they listed a plant called slickspot peppergrass as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 2009.
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It’s shaping up as a strong year for most Idaho alfalfa growers. Farmers in the southern part of the state who rely on natural rainfall, however, are struggling due to the combination of June frost damage and extreme dry weather.
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Sugar beet farmers in Idaho's Treasure Valley are experiencing heavy pressure from a fungus that reduces both yields and sugar content, having benefited from a relative reprieve from the powdery mildew disease during the previous two growing seasons.
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Producers in the nation's main onion-growing region in southwest Idaho and east Oregon expect 2012 to be much better than the 2011 season, when prices were near all-time lows.
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Feed rose more than any other production expense on the average American farm during 2011, but labor wages held steady from the previous year, according to a USDA report.
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In this podcast, Idaho reporter Carol Ryan Dumas looks at an effort to turn a native plant into a cash crop and reporter Mateusz Perkowski explains why a court case blocking aerial spraying may cause problems for neighbors of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.
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Like most Idaho grape growers, Rocky Fence Vineyard owner Mike Medes has always disposed of his vine prunings by piling and burning them. This season, however, he'll put the waste product to beneficial use.
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Thirteen U.S. senators have sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack requesting an explanation of how a "Meatless Mondays" initiative made its way onto the agency's website.
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The promise of water, electricity and labor savings is driving irrigation investment decisions across the United States. Sales of irrigation equipment are booming in 2012, and experts say the ongoing summer drought may inspire further demand among farmers.
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