Agricultural students with journalism or communications training are encouraged to apply for Ag Proud – Idaho’s 2024 editorial internship program. Applications are due Dec. 31, 2023.

The Chobani Scholars program has awarded a total of $100,000 in scholarships to five Magic Valley area students who are newly enrolled at University of Idaho and are poised to make meaningful contributions to agriculture.

I’ve heard organization boards throughout the state talk about dwindling farms and thus farmers, and in Idaho, as elsewhere, that is true. However, in Idaho in 2014, the USDA reported there were 24,700 farms. In 2022, they reported 24,400 farms.

Is a prayer sincere if it starts with, “We are so thankful for the moisture we have received, and we know we need every drop of it, and we are not complaining, but maybe in passing you might want to know that we can’t get into the field to do any fieldwork, so uhhh ... just mentioning it in case it affects your eternal plans. Amen.”