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The Southern Idaho Livestock Hall of Fame recognizes the men and women who have made positive impacts on the livestock industry. The newest inductees were honored on April 8 during the organization’s 64th annual banquet in Twin Falls.

Rigby has a new CTE building. It exists thanks to the collaboration of many community stakeholders and the ag teachers in the ag department, but the ag department will never live within its walls, and that is precisely how they want it.

I’m not ashamed to admit that one of the happiest days of my life was in high school, and it was a revenge day. What’s worse, it was a revenge day exacted against an innocent person who had no idea I even had a stake in his tragedy.

Are your state representatives farmers or ranchers? Does your state senator come from a career in ag? Does anyone from your legislative district even have ties to production agriculture? According to Doug Jones, state representative from 1985-2005, for the 2025 session, he counts around 20 members of both houses as agriculturalists.

For most, their coffee is so foul-tasting that a double shot of cream and sugar is required as flavoring. As my grandmother would say, “If you waste your time with cream and sugar, why don’t you just drink hot chocolate with the children?” She would then smile a yellow-toothed grin and laugh with the breath of a not-yet-warm diesel engine.