Rebecca Mills

Rebecca Mills served 20 years as a university extension educator. Now she's home chasing cattle, horses, chickens and miracle twin toddlers on 70 acres near Horseshoe Bend, Idaho. In her "free" time, she tells the story of agricultural professionals, one contract project at a time.

Custom Writing for Ag Professionals / Arrowleaf Solutions

Managing drought from pivot to range

Facing dry conditions on both the range and farmground, two Idaho producers share the challenges ahead and how they plan to adapt this year.

June 30, 2026

Rebecca Mills

For producers of all commodities across Idaho, water has been a topic of conversation for months and for good reason. As the mild winter turned to an early, semi-wet spring and now to a forecast extra-dry summer, the conversations continue.

Improved decision-making brings a bright future

June 24, 2020

Rebecca Mills

The year 2020 has proven, once again, that much of what happens in life is unpredictable and uncontrollable. Global and domestic markets have been disrupted and commodity prices increasingly volatilized.

Novel fescue by the numbers

January 31, 2020

Rebecca Mills

Joe Davis is a numbers man. His brain is full of them, and every gigabyte of his phone and two laptops is crammed full. So naturally, when it comes time for the retired chemical engineer to answer a question or solve a problem, he turns to figures. “I don’t like to deal with ‘kinda’ or ‘it depends,’” he says.