Agriculture

The CALS Deep Soil Ecotron team extracts soil cores at the U of I Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center on Monday, July 2, 2025. The extracted soil will allow investigators and scientists to simultaneously manipulate both abiotic and biotic factors such as climate, plant communities, soil types and more to better understand subsurface soils.⁠ (PHOTO: U OF I)
Mar 20, 2026

University of Idaho to showcase Deep Soil Ecotron at symposium

University of Idaho unveils the Deep Soil Ecotron, a $19 million facility for advanced soil ecosystem research, with a symposium in Moscow.

Mar 24, 2025

Irrigation customers to receive full access to water by end of April

According to the city, it receives most of its irrigation water from canals and ditches that are runoff from Arrowrock, Lucky Peak and Anderson Ranch reservoirs to name a few.

Hay bales are stacked in a field in northern Idaho. (PHOTO: DEPOSITPHOTOS.COM)
Mar 20, 2025

UI Extension studies economics of leaving straw in fields

The straw studies followed up on Loomis’ 2017 master’s thesis project, which was funded by the Idaho Barley Commission and evaluated the efficiency with which plants take up nitrogen when it is tilled into the soil versus broadcast on the surface.

Linda Schott
Jan 28, 2025

University of Idaho conference not a waste of time but time spent on waste

The University of Idaho (U of I) and Idaho Sustainable Agriculture Initiative for Dairy (ISAID) are partnering up to host a national conference focused on “creative and valuable ways to make use of animal waste.”

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Jul 18, 2019

Brewer pays Idaho farmers to switch to organic barley

University of Idaho has transported three of the largest intact soil columns ever unearthed about 130 miles from where they were dug in Sandpoint to a unique, new laboratory on ...

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Jun 27, 2019

Retaliatory tariffs could target Idaho agriculture, economists say

University of Idaho has transported three of the largest intact soil columns ever unearthed about 130 miles from where they were dug in Sandpoint to a unique, new laboratory on ...

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May 30, 2019

Small Business Spotlight: Ola family operates ranch for over 100 years

University of Idaho has transported three of the largest intact soil columns ever unearthed about 130 miles from where they were dug in Sandpoint to a unique, new laboratory on ...

Oct 30, 2018

New Zealand digital ag tech company expands to Twin Falls

University of Idaho has transported three of the largest intact soil columns ever unearthed about 130 miles from where they were dug in Sandpoint to a unique, new laboratory on ...

Mar 29, 2018

Idaho farmers ready to capitalize on McConnell hemp bill

University of Idaho has transported three of the largest intact soil columns ever unearthed about 130 miles from where they were dug in Sandpoint to a unique, new laboratory on ...

Feb 13, 2018

Nampa seeks to face loss of ag land head-on

University of Idaho has transported three of the largest intact soil columns ever unearthed about 130 miles from where they were dug in Sandpoint to a unique, new laboratory on ...

Jun 6, 2017

New Weiser company puts the spotlight on prebiotics

University of Idaho has transported three of the largest intact soil columns ever unearthed about 130 miles from where they were dug in Sandpoint to a unique, new laboratory on ...