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Straw Study
Posted 3/19/2025 7:00:00 AM
University of Idaho Extension Educator Grant Loomis has noticed an increasing number of Blaine County farmers have been letting their straw rot in the field after grain harvest rather than baling and selling it. Read more
Improving Poverty Awareness
Posted 3/5/2025 4:00:00 PM
Southwest District Health has afforded greater flexibility to clients who arrive late to appointments ever since staff completed a poverty competency training program facilitated by University of Idaho Extension. Read more
Beef 201
Posted 2/19/2025 8:00:00 AM
University of Idaho’s beef team is accepting applications for another multi-day workshop tailored toward helping the region’s beginning ranchers succeed. Read more
Liming Trials
Posted 2/19/2025 8:00:00 AM
Separate University of Idaho research projects conducted over several years in eastern Idaho and northern Idaho have both concluded applying lime to raise soil pH can be a cost-effective approach toward improving crop yields. Read more
U of I cereals pathologist concerned about Idaho stripe rust outlook
Posted 2/7/2025 8:00:00 AM
A University of Idaho cereals pathologist is advising the state’s grain farmers that conditions appear optimal for pressure from a fungal disease that can devastate crop yields, known as stripe rust. Read more
Vole Damage Survey
Posted 2/5/2025 8:00:00 AM
University of Idaho Extension educators are surveying southern and eastern Idaho potato farmers to document the scope of their problems with mouselike rodents known as voles. Read more