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Rain Hampers Purdum's Fruit and Vegetable Operation
Payette - "No more rain! Rain, rain go away," A kids song from the lips of Robyn Purdum, but the farmer sings with deadpan honesty. The fruit stand owner is tired of rain so much, she drips with frustration.
"Its not allowing us to get into the fields and do what we need to, to fertilize, spray and even finish planting," she says. Last June Purdum says you could look down lush cornrows and see the early sweet corn tasseling, today you'll see scrawny, 8 inch corn battling rain and cold temperatures for survival.
"If we have some heat units maybe we can catch up, if not we are going to be a couple of weeks late. Hopefully we will get some warm weather this month and in July and we will catch up. But the weather has got to turn around," said Purdum.
Emmett Re-opens sawmill
Emmett-A working sawmill in this historic mill-town is back in operation after a decade of silence and rough economic times.
Contest Trains Future Natural Resource Leaders
CHALLIS – Envirothon is a contest for high school students aimed at training and testing them in five different areas related to natural resource conservation.
Johnnie Martin: Have Horse Will Travel
Emmett - Springtime is the busy season for farriers, horseshoer Johnnie Martin is in demand and on a good day he’ll travel a three-hundred mile loop shoeing horses from Boise to Riggins.
Caution: Farm Equipment Back on the Roads
Boise - The headlines each spring are disturbing and frequent: Car hits combine, motorist injured.
Producers Hopeful About Dairy Solar Project
Raft River - Mike Garner, a partner in Webb Dairy and Heglar Canyon Farms, shows off a new solar project that is expected to pay off in three years and cut propane costs on the calf production segment of the company’s dairy by 65 percent.
Potato video reaches viewer milestone on YouTube
News From the Packer By Ashley Bentley A video of “Gilligan’s Island’s” Mary Ann peeling an Idaho potato is among YouTube’s most popular videos, crossing the 10 million viewer mark recently. The video, featuring actress and Idaho Potato Commission celebrity spokeswoman Dawn Wells demonstrating a peeler-less potato peeling technique, has been viewed more than 10.1 million times, according to a commission news release. Not even 1% of the videos posted on the site make it into the millions on view counts, according to the release.
Idaho's First Wolf Hunt Comes to an End
Boise - Idaho's first wolf hunting session ends today and with 185 wolves harvested so far, throughout the state. Idaho Fish and Game reports seven of twelve wolf zones already closed.