By the time he was 10 years old, Taylor Smith was already recognized by his community as a promising young farmer. He’d started to build his cow herd. He was handy with equipment. His work ethic was unmatched by anyone else at his elementary school. But Taylor wasn’t interested in the recognition. He just wanted to be on the farm.

He calls himself a Rigby town kid, but Dennis Lake was truly his grandfather’s right-hand man on the ranch just north of town. At 88, Lake is still a critical part of the operation. 

Last year, 6,000 Idahoans signed the Senate Joint Memorial 101 (SJM 101) petition to “Keep Idaho Water.” SJM 101 aims to evaluate and expand Idaho’s long-term water storage capacity – including thorough studies of the potential reconstruction of the Teton Dam.

Is cloud seeding good for Idaho? Is it an effective way to increase the snowpack and, eventually, the water supply? What are cloud seeding’s effects on the landscape, human and wildlife populations?

Three beef industry experts share their views on the reality of beef market dynamics and how they are navigating the lowest cattle numbers, the highest cattle prices and beef’s new level of demand.

In 2024, a new law added tributary basins outside the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer to groundwater rights management. Two producers share their perspectives on the impact of this change.

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.

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.

BLM manages its land for multiple uses; yet, this is the first time a wind project of this magnitude has gone this far in the BLM approval process.

Just as a love of farming runs strong in the Clark line, so does a willingness to serve.