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Idaho event to unite growers, school food service directors
School food service directors can't seem to get enough of Corby Garrett's Saturn peaches. Nicknamed donut peaches, they're about an inch thick and 4 inches in diameter, with white flesh -- and they're intensely sweet.
Thanks to Idaho's Farm to School program, Garrett Ranches, a 400-acre fruit far ...
Aide to Reid says farm bill could come to floor in June
An aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the senator hopes to bring a draft of the 2012 farm bill to the Senate floor next month. "The farm bill is a top priority for Sen. Reid, and he hopes to be able to bring it to the floor in June," Adam Jentleson, Reid's communications director ...Land O'Lakes reduces milk supply through incentives and buyouts
Land O’ Lakes has offered buyouts to some of its California member dairies in an effort to address a “significant increase” in Golden State milk production. “Land O'Lakes offered its members a number of options that were intended to address the situation,” Jean ...Growers prepare for possible record PNW cherry crop
RICHLAND, Wash. — The Pacific Northwest is staring at a possible 20.3-million-box cherry crop. The last time it had a crop in that range — the record 20.4 million boxes in 2009 — the train came off the tracks. About 18 million boxes of that was compressed into 45 days in 2009, clo ...Idaho Falls dairy embraces new neighbors
IDAHO FALLS -- David Sanderlin and his 6-year-old son, Zachary, left the store at Reed's Dairy on a recent Friday afternoon with individual scoops of ice cream and a quart to take home.
They finished their treats by the petting zoo, where Zachary likes to watch the goats. Visiting the dairy, loc ...
PNW hay stocks high as first cutting starts
The amount of hay, sold and unsold, stored on farms is down 34 percent from a year ago in Washington, up 150 percent in Idaho and about even in Oregon, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service. The combined May 1 old crop stock of the three states is 1.21 million tons, which is ...Study shows Boise multimodal facility could help farmers
BOISE -- A preliminary study has shown it may be economically feasible to build a multimodal transloading center near Boise that could benefit farm commodities by better facilitating the movement of shipping containers. Agriculture groups welcomed the news because such a facility could redu ...