Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) is a semiaquatic perennial plant that is native to Europe and can be purchased (illegally) as an ornamental.

Clue: This plant resembles an alfalfa plant after a migration of grasshoppers has stripped all the leaves off.

If we can keep wind erosion under control, maybe then we’d only have to worry about planning for death and taxes, and finding where our trampolines are nesting.

UI plant virologist Alexander Karasev took the alfalfa samples in 2020 while collecting symptomatic foliage in a field at the future site of Idaho CAFE near Rupert. Karasev named the newly discovered disease Snake River virus, after the Snake River Valley in which the field is located.

If you try to improve your farming or ranching practice and it doesn’t work, realize you had a good learning opportunity. With eyes open, who knows what great things you will learn from failure?

The quote “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” is often attributed to Albert Einstein. This situation often occurs in my agricultural trials, where every year I test the effectiveness of fungicides against disease like fusarium dry rot or rhizoctonia canker in potato.

If the plant could talk in-season, what would it tell you about its needs? Sap analysis can find out.

Reviewing the 2022 growing season across Idaho – the lows and the highs.

Weed resistance? Better bring your A game.

There's heartburn from four sources in Idaho ag this year: irrigation cost, labor, fertilizer and interest rates.