Sowing seeds of harmony

Organic farmer branched off from previous life of music Adam Reed picked up a pair of drumsticks in the fifth grade and played for approximately two decades, but he doesn’t […]

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Celebrating agriculture

 Agriculture events bring high school students to campus Anyone who’s ever wanted to eat French fries, pet farm animals and look at farm equipment displays before watching a Vandal football […]

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‘Ag-gag’ bad move

Wake up at five, feed the cows, set the water and make it to school by eight. This was a typical morning on the small farm I grew up on.  […]

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Saving potatoes in Idaho

The University of Idaho recently received a grant for research in eradicating a nematode that attacks potato plants in Idaho. The $436,529 grant is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture […]

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Representing Idaho at FFA

University of Idaho freshman Anna Pratt will attempt to follow in her brother’s footsteps by being elected to the National FFA  Organization national office next month. Pratt’s brother, Seth Pratt, […]

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Mail Box

Feeding program fiasco Dear Editor: Perhaps the federal Farm Bill could have avoided that nasty “partisan rut” if the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture had stuck to its knittin’ instead of […]