A revision to the Idaho Comprehensive State Water Plan, setting water management goals for the state and strategies toward meeting them, has become law due to the Legislature's inaction on the issue.
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Idaho's agricultural community is supporting a scrap metal bill that it hopes will help reduce farm thefts.
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A bill that would exempt free food samples from the state's 6 percent use tax passed the Idaho House 68-0 and has moved to the Senate. The bill would ensure that any producer, farm group or grocery store that offers customers free samples of food doesn't have to pay the tax.
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A bill that would raise the ceiling on a brand inspection fee for cow-calf producers narrowly passed a House committee. The bill would allow the cattle industry to raise a brand inspection fee that is used to help fund predator control efforts in Idaho.
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A bill that would make it easier for people who have horses dumped on them to sell the animals is sailing through the Idaho Legislature. The bill passed the House 69-0 Feb. 26 and has been sent to the Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee.
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A bill introduced in the Idaho Legislature would make it a misdemeanor for a sheepherder to walk off the job and abandon their animals without first notifying their employer they are quitting.
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Idaho lawmakers expect to have to deal with more proposals addressing animal cruelty this year, an issue that resulted in a lot of debate and heated rhetoric last year.
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There will be a lot of new faces when the 2013 Idaho Legislature convenes Jan. 7, but farm groups believe agriculture will be well represented in the state's legislative body.
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A farmer and rancher will battle for the House speaker position during the 2013 Idaho Legislature. Farm groups aren't taking sides on the upcoming battle between the current speaker of the House, Rep. Lawerence Denney, a farmer from Midvale, and the Assistant Majority Leader, Rep. Scott Bedke, a rancher from Oakley.
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In this podcast, editors and reporters talk about why Idaho farmers are confident about the battle for the state House leadership, the strong market for Northwest pears, and what a USDA study on the profitability of off-farm businesses means for growers.
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Idaho's population shift away from rural, farm-dependent communities to metropolitan areas intensified last year at the fastest pace since the 1980s. This has some farmers and ag leaders concerned about farming's clout in the Idaho Legislature.
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A bill that would give the Idaho Barley Commission authority to raise the grower checkoff rate has been introduced in the Idaho Legislature. The legislation, which is being backed by the Idaho Grain Producers Association, would give the commission authority to raise the grower assessment fee from 2 cents to 4 cents per hundredweight.
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Several major farm and livestock groups in Idaho still haven’t decided whether to support proposed legislation that would add a felony provision for animal cruelty to state law. But the Idaho Cattle Association, which is behind the proposal, is confident those groups will support the effort when the time is right.
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Oregon lawmakers passed a bill this session — House Bill 2159 — that most believe will dramatically change the working relationship between grass seed growers and seed dealers. Capital Press reporter Mitch Lies asked Roger Beyer, executive secretary of the Oregon Seed Council, and Mark Simmons, executive director of the Oregon Grass Seed Bargaining Association, what this legislation means for the industry and how it evolved.
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