The snowpack across Idaho is at or above normal for this time of year, which is welcomed news after the lengthy irrigation season the state saw in 2022, tapping many reservoirs to extremely low levels. In fact, Erin Whorton with NRCS-Idaho said the only locations that are not above 100% of average are in extreme north Idaho. The sol...
Farmers need labor certainty from the H-2A guestworker program. After years of working for reforms, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act is the best chance for agriculture to receive the labor it needs. Shay Myers is a third generation farmer, and owner of Idaho’s Owyhee Produce a vertically integrated family farm, growing, packing and marketing nine different consumer crops, from asparagus to w
Much like states across the west, Idaho’s snowpack is very, if not extremely low for this time of year. In the Gem State, with the expectation of the Spokane, the Owyhee and the Clearwater basins, the state is dealing with snowpacks less than half of what they should be for this time of year. And
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On Tuesday, the Idaho Board of Land Commissioners gave its final approval to exchanging land within the Owyhee Canyonland Wilderness with federal BLM lands. According to the Idaho Department of Lands, the exchange allows the state and the BLM to acquire lands better suited to their missions and objectives
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Last week, Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley introduced the Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act. The legislation would designate more than one million acres of wilderness and protect more than 14 miles of the Owyhee River as wild and scenic. Je...
On Monday members of the SE Oregon ag community were in Salem, asking that 2.5 million acres not be designated as the Owyhee Monument. If approved the region near the Oregon-Idaho Nevada border, a region the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined would become off limits to farming. Ba...