VegetablesTaylor Grant, who runs a 30,000-acre potato farm in Rupert, Idaho, faces low prices and rising diesel, fertilizer and machinery costs, and says AI reports, alerts and dashboards are the next technology step for his farm.
CropsConservation, careful diversions and 60,000 acre-feet of mitigation water from groundwater pumpers kept deliveries going toward mid-October despite a one-third cut in May.
CropsLate frosts, warm nights and wildfire smoke have cut yields across Idaho's potato crop, though growers and the state potato commission say quality is consistent.
EnvironmentThe Bureau of Reclamation had feared 6 percent in August; the eight-reservoir system stood at 11 percent on 18 September against a median of 41.5 percent, and deliveries should end around mid-October as usual.
Glenn and Caryl Elzinga, who came to Salmon as a forester and a plant ecologist in 1987, sell organic grass-finished beef from cattle grazing 4,800 to 9,000 feet, and after years of riders living with the herd against wolves now hold cattle with Halter collars.
