Technology is like a mushroom – generally, the main spore produces countless side spores. Take the smartphone technology, for example – from it sprang businesses that exclusively design cellphone covers; businesses that designed add-ons like pop-ups for grips, selfie sticks and camera tripods to hold them steady; refurbishing sites to replace those cracked screens; and cloud-based storage sites to hold all those photos you’ll never use again.

Idaho water forecasts have been “all over the board” this year. So what’s going on with predictability models, and why does the water user get pulled down on allotment and then increased?

“This was a worn-out dairy when I came 10 years ago,” says Eric Evans of Evans Dairy near Castleford. “It originally had a double-four parlor with grain feeder but was built for Holsteins.” Eric wanted to milk Jerseys, and the cow size difference required some remodeling anyway, so he remodeled the parlor to work as a double-nine.

The 2018 Farm Bill gave states the authority to produce hemp but left regulation and licensing to state agriculture departments.