Southeast Idaho farmer Tanner Funk digs potatoes June 23 in a field where no frost damage was found. (Courtesy County Line Farms) PLEASANT VALLEY, Idaho — Potato farmer Tanner Funk feared a ...

Don McFarland is 85 years old, but his eyes light up and he starts smiling like a kid when you mention potatoes or how he grows them on his property nestled into the base of the Boise National Forest.

HAMMETT, Idaho — Idaho’s iconic potatoes are facing a decline in demand, leading to fewer acres planted across the state and forcing local farmers to adapt. Nick Blanksma, whose family has farmed in ...

The reverse trade mission kicked off Monday with a farm tour in Caldwell. Afterwards, they paid a visit to the University of ...

WILLIAM SCHAEFER For Farm and Ranch Jun 7, 2024 Jun 7, 2024 0 Whether it’s too much heat, not enough water, or increasing costs of inputs, Idaho farmers face a long list of challenges every year when ...

Potatoes might be reclassified as a grain, but not if Idaho’s senators have their way. U.S. Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo, along with a bipartisan group of 12 other senators, have called on the ...

His visit makes Idaho the first state to send a diplomatic delegation to the United Kingdom following President Trump's visit.

BOISE, Idaho — Matt Wissel grows vegetables and melons on about 80 acres in Nampa, just as his father and grandfather did. He runs his family’s farm, Wissel Farms, with his wife, Benita. He’s watched ...

RUPERT — What if you could have a baked potato in minutes, instead of an hour? Mart Frozen Foods, a subsidiary of the Mart Group, cut the ribbon earlier this month on a plant in Southern Idaho that ...