OLYMPIA, Washington, Nov. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Northwest Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Corn for Grain Production of corn for grain in Idaho is forecast at 21.0 million bushels, down 17 percent from last year. Harvested area, at 105,000 acres, is down 15,000 acres from 2021. Yield is expected to be 200 bushels per acre, down 10 bushels from 2021. Washington corn for grain production is forecast at 17.5 m  more

SALMON, Idaho, Nov. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Salmon-Challis National Forest - issued the following news release: The Salmon-Challis National Forest has authorized the Salmon-Challis Fuels Reduction and Restoration Project. The project would occur in multiple locations across the Forest. Project implementation is anticipated to begin in the 2023. The purpose of this project is to improve resiliency on the Forest by reducing existing natural fuels buil  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following report on Nov. 9, 2022, entitled "Groundwater Budgets for the Big Lost River Basin, South-Central Idaho, 2000-19." Here are excerpts: * * * ABSTRACT The Big Lost River Basin, located in parts of Butte and Custer Counties in south-central Idaho, supports the communities surrounding the cities of Arco, Leslie, Mackay, and Moore and provides for agricultural resources that depend on  more