Rod Runyan of Buhl says the livestock hauling business has turned into a regulation nightmare. New haulers aren't coming into the business, making the existing ones even more valuable.

If we'll have trouble locating seed, tell me now while I'm in planning stages.

More regulations mean more cost, with no compensating price increase, and businesses sometimes struggle to keep up.

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Harvesting hay from the right-of-way (ROW) is a common practice in neighboring states such as Oregon, Montana and Wyoming.

The Paris Agreement is an international treaty on climate change, adopted in 2015. Its goal is to limit global warming to 2.7ºF. “To achieve this long-term temperature goal, countries aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible to achieve a climate-neutral world by midcentury,” according to the United Nations.

Technology can be a farmer’s friend. For example, a device about the size of a pound or two of butter is buried in the field and is helping farmers improve crop quality, boost yields and reduce environmental impacts through data-driven insights from soil to storage.

With four Bureau of Land Management (BLM) district offices and 12 field offices, the BLM manages nearly 12 million acres of public lands in Idaho, nearly one-fourth of the state’s total land area.

Birds are pests on farms and ranches, consuming and contaminating feed intended for cattle and fruit.

Interstate Feedlot isn’t the largest feedlot in Idaho, but it is part of a larger entity, making it the “world’s largest cattle feeder.”