BOISE -- On Friday March 1, Class 39 of Leadership Idaho Agriculture (LIA) graduated in Boise and joined the ranks of 958 other alumni across the state.

BOISE — A plan to create the nation’s largest research dairy advanced with last month’s vote by the Idaho State Board of Education to allow the University of Idaho to buy land for the $45 million project.

University of Idaho Extension

This workshop series focuses on topics that assist landowners in producing and marketing agriculture products that are sold locally.

University of Idaho Extension is offering: The Basics & Beyond: Cattle Ownership & Management 201

University of Idaho Extension is offering: What Landowners Need to Know: The New Income Tax Law and Timber & Idaho’s New Trespassing Law

All farmers and ranchers, agri-support personnel, and other interested persons are welcome to come for a morning of information about the grain industry and a complimentary lunch

Cattle at Cottonwood

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Washington, D.C.

Reauthorization of the Farm Bill will provide the certainty agriculture producers in Idaho and across the nation need as they continue to face a challenging farm economy while ensuring the continuation of important research, promotion and conservation programs

Farming operations at Cottonwood.

"FSA loans are designed to make sure that everyone has access to credit including underserved, and beginning farmers and ranchers"

U.S. Department of Agriculture

soil health

A variety of factors can affect forest, range, and crop-land health. Current Topics is an annual program that provides landowners and managers with some of the latest information on issues that impact the achievement of land management goals.

- Tree Assistance Program (TAP) - Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP) - Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP)

“Special Projects are a way for producers, partners and NRCS to work collaboratively in addressing local priorities”

Fall is here, and with it fall calving for some and weaning spring born calves for others. This is a good time to evaluate the body condition of your cattle. Cattle producers are invited to a body condition scoring of beef cattle class on Friday, Oct. 26, at the Cottonwood Livestock Auction in Cottonwood.

Plants that fight back

Students get hand on

International Markets

Rylaarsdam fares well

Hands on for Horses

Ranch Rodeo

U of I Study

Ranch Life

Farm Nuisance

Up to one-third family owned forests in Idaho are likely to change hands in five years.

For Sydney Rylaarsdam, it’s been cows since day one. Born into a cattle family and helping feed almost since she could walk, the Grangeville 16-year-old is immersed in cow culture.

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service there are 2.4 million head of cattle in Idaho as of Jan. 1, 2018. Idaho County reports 32,500 head. According to the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, the state is “the 3rd largest dairy-producing state in the nation, with more than 14 billion pounds of milk produced in 2015.”

GREENCREEK – “How old do you think this tree was?” Idaho Forest Group’s Glenn Poxleitner asked a group of kids as he held up a cut tree ring to them. “Two? Forty?” kids yelled out.

Within the classic sport of rodeo lies a traditional core going back to its traditional roots.

If you’re looking to feel better, Nina Beckwell has literally the hands-on approach to help improve your physical well-being. And that goes for your horse, too.

The Idaho Beef Council’s investment in the PNI this year funded multiple retail promotions with major regional chains as well as several business development teams that have traveled to the Pacific Northwest — the latest team visiting during May 2018.

PULLMAN, Wash. - So small it can't be seen with the naked eye, a parasitic worm called the root-knot nematode causes mammoth problems for Northwest farmers. Potatoes, grapes and other crops could gain a new, nature-based way to fight back, thanks to Cynthia Gleason and Jennifer Watts, scientists at Washington State University.