Anheuser-Busch is paying six Idaho farmers to grow organic barley for its Michelob Ultra Pure Gold organic beer. The beer launched in 2018, and the St. Louis-based company wants to expand it, but first it needs to ensure that there ...

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Trade tariffs are currently at about half the level they were during the Smoot Hawley era, which is commonly thought of as exacerbating the Great Depression, but if a new level of tariffs is imposed on Chinese imports, total tariffs ...

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A small business isn’t necessarily “small” geographically. Sometimes it can sprawl over dozens of acres. That’s the case for the Sherman Glenn Ranch, a 125-acre cattle operation recently designated by the state of Idaho as a Century Ranch after being ...

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New Zealand-based digital agricultural technology company CropLogic will open its second U.S. sales office on the campus of the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls. CropLogic, CSI, the city of Twin Falls and the Southern Idaho Economic Development Organization ...

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Should Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell’s plan to submit a bill to legalize the growth of industrial hemp pass, Idaho farmers are ready and willing to add the new crop to their rotation. “If the federal law was changed, there are ...

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Idaho farmland is being gobbled up by the minute to house the swelling population in America’s No. 1 fastest-growing state. While some rural areas, such as Lemhi County, have programs in place like the Lemhi Trust to preserve farmland, the ...

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Probiotics get the TV commercials. Prebiotics is what a new Weiser company is banking on. The newly established Intrinsic Organics started construction in early May in the industrial area south of Weiser on a $5.5 million, 9,000-square-foot production facility for ...

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