Idaho Ag Today

Eric and Sheila Hasselstrom of Winchester Ridge Farms are experimenting with new farming methods to help improve soil, crop quality and their bottom line.

2025 water year was a mixed bag in Idaho.

Idaho and U.S. farmers are currently facing tough financial challenges and many are struggling to stay in business.

Valley High School restarting ag program

Notes on Pacific NW Water Supply Fall meeting at Boise State University … 11/4/25

Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of a barley health claim.

Drones and beneficial insect release.

Notes on Pacific NW Water Supply Fall meeting at Boise State University.

Idaho and U.S. potato farmers had hopes that the recent trade agreement with Japan would include market access for fresh U.S. potatoes.

Ridenbaugh Canal Headworks Modernization Project.

Most ranchers in Idaho do not want grizzly bears to disappear in the state.

Ridenbaugh Canal Headworks Modernization Project.

Chefs, media tour Idaho farm country.

Study: UI Extension Eat Smart Idaho program generates tremendous return.

Chefs, media tour Idaho farm country

PNW Water Summit November 4, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mountain Time

Ridenbaugh Canal Headworks Modernization Project

A good chunk of the world's seed production occurs in southwestern Idaho.

Farm Bureau's new four-story, mixed-use project in downtown Boise.

On October 16th, the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation held a groundbreaking ceremony for it's new four-story, mixed-use project in downtown Boise.

E. Idaho seed potato growers track aphid migrations with help of UI Extension pest trapping program

Big event coming up at the Baker City Fairgrounds in Baker City, Oregon.

The first potatoes grown in Idaho were planted in northern Idaho by Rev. Henry Spaulding.

The Idaho Department of Agriculture treated the invasive species Quagga muscles in the fall of 2023 and 2024. Now they're back once again.

Sugarbeets are a unique, humble crop that pays the bills for a lot of Idaho farms.

In 2023 an infestation of quagga mussels was found in the Snake River near Twin Falls.

Ag department awards $1.6 million in grants

Hosted by Cam Hammond and Ott Clark and produced by the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, the Dirt Road Discussions podcast is available.

In an ideal situation, ranchers and range managers like to see cattle actively grazing on a broad spectrum of the range.

Humanitarian Wood Work Day is a local event in McCall, Idaho, organized by the Heartland Hunger Resource Center, which is the community food bank.

In September Idaho Potato Days 2025 was held at Kleiner Park in Meridian.

Bethany Gotts is a farmer next to the Bruneau Sand Dunes who found her great love for sunflowers and passion for agriculture.

UI Extension study shows promise for raising, grazing cover crops after grain harvest.

ISDA confirmed a detection of quagga mussels in the infested area of the Snake River.

Growing Garlic Seed in Idaho.

Idaho and Taiwan signed a $1.2 billion, three-year letter of intent for U.S. wheat exports.

IDWR agents work to bring all 743 water users into compliance with July Methodology Order.

2025 marks the 40th anniversary of what many consider the Agriculture Department's flagship conservation program.

Idaho's per capita farm income lead grows.

Samantha Parrot of the Snake River Sugarbeet Growers Association explains the complicated but very exact formula for how Idaho sugar beet producers get paid.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting applications from agricultural producers and forest landowners in Idaho.

Idaho Water Resource Board approves three major projects to improve water management of the Snake River and Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer.