S.E. Idaho growers brace for stripe rust pressure
AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho — Cereal crop experts have discovered stripe rust infections in three areas of southeast Idaho and warn cool, wet weather could result in heavy…
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Low protein pushes Idaho dryland wheat to feed
ARBON VALLEY, Idaho — Grain merchandisers in Southern and Eastern Idaho say upwards of half of the regional dryland wheat production has been sold into feeder channels,…
Heavy rains a mixed blessing for Idaho growers
John O'Connell/Capital Press Arbon Valley, Idaho, grower Jeff Campbell, son of Ken Campbell, plants fall wheat, benefiting from recent moisture.
Dryland wheat off to a good start in Eastern Idaho
Dryland farmers throughout Eastern Idaho say they're pleased by the growth and condition of their fall grain crops, which enjoyed strong germination thanks to ample soil…
Idaho dryland farmers say heat has zapped wheat yields
ARBON VALLEY, Idaho — Ryan Weston believes record heat and extreme dryness have already taken 90 percent off of his potential spring and winter wheat yields.
Fire fighting farmers of Arbon Valley
Hans Hayden is one of the firefighting farmers of Arbon Valley.
Observation from the South End
The deep green of the fall wheat in contrast with the bitter-sweet chocolate brown of the fresh plowed fields makes me want to mimic it in a quilt for my bed.
In Arbon Valley, dryland wheat waits on the sky
From a 1994 plan to seed the clouds to a crop rescued by May rain in 2020, the farm press followed Arbon Valley's dryland wheat growers through good years and bad.
Arbon Valley cuts a good wheat crop at a poor price
In August 1982 Arbon Valley growers cut a sound dryland wheat crop they expected to sell at a loss, the latest turn in three decades of late harvests, drought and rain-soaked fields.
Mormon crickets on the march in Arbon Valley
In the late summer of 1975 swarms of Mormon crickets were crawling through Arbon Valley's fields, two years after a grasshopper campaign and sixteen years before the insects came down from the hills again.
Don Jenson, who farmed Arbon Valley from boyhood, dies at 65
Don Jenson came to Arbon Valley as a boy, farmed there until his death in 1968 though he lived in Pocatello from 1940, and served in two Arbon ward bishoprics.
Brigham City farmer killed as his combine rolls on an Arbon Valley hill
Richard S. Christensen, 47, a Brigham City dry farmer cutting grain in Arbon Valley, died on September 24, 1965, when his combine went over on a hillside and rolled onto him.
The day a hundred farmers laughed at Mel Bailey's spray plane
Just after the war, Arbon farmer Mel Bailey had Pocatello pilot Curley Wilson spray his weedy wheat from a homemade rig on a light plane, the first job of a crop-spraying business that kept 22 men busy by 1964.
Farmer pulls crop-duster pilot from wreck near Midnight summit
When a crop-dusting plane went down and exploded in Arbon Valley early on July 21, 1962, a farmer named Joseph Roberts got the pilot out just in time, and the wreck set the range on fire.
An Arbon farmer tells Washington to quit paying for the surplus
In December 1959 Lamond J. Bailey of Arbon, signing himself "A Surplus Farmer," wrote to a Pocatello column that the government should end farm subsidies and leave business alone.
Three-year-old David Stohl killed in a grain auger at Arbon
In October 1959 three-year-old David Earl Stohl died on his family's Arbon farm after reaching for a toy shovel in the hopper of the power auger his father was using to load grain.
Pocatello farm tour stops to look over Arbon Valley
A Pocatello Chamber of Commerce farm tour stood on the Mink Creek divide on July 11, 1958, and heard that 76 farms held the 59,827 acres of cropland in the Arbon-Crystal district.
Harvest hand charged with taking Joseph G. Arbon's pickup, rifle and camera
A man hired to help bring in the 1953 harvest on Joseph G. Arbon's ranch was caught trying to sell his employer's goods to a neighbor and pleaded guilty to grand larceny.
On Arbon's slopes, dry farmers turn to contour strips
Ross Saxton laid nearly all his Arbon dry farm out in contour strips by 1952, and over the next dozen years the valley's hill ground brought a harvest gadget praised by two Arbon men and a fatal combine accident.
LeRoy Lindley lays his Arbon Valley hillside out in strips
Two years after helping launch Power County's soil conservation district, LeRoy Lindley of Arbon striped his own hillside wheat farm with contour strips that his neighbors had never seen before.
Arbon Valley wheat growers band together to sell through Michaud
In July 1948 about 50 Arbon Valley wheat growers, meeting at the Pauline schoolhouse, formed a unit of an Ogden grain cooperative to market their wheat through Carl Rudeen's elevator at Michaud.
A journalism student finds Arbon Valley at a turning point, 1947
In November 1947 a University of Idaho journalism student wrote up Arbon Valley for the Pocatello Tribune, catching power on the way, a new road staked out and a 1912 homesteader who had outlasted the Depression.
Frost takes a share of the Arbon and Crystal wheat in a bumper year
In 1947 a frost cost Arbon and Crystal growers a fifth to nearly all of their grain, while the rest of Power County brought in so much wheat it had nowhere to put it.
Big Arbon Valley wheat farms go up for sale in the Utah want ads
For thirteen years after the Second World War, Utah classified columns offered Arbon Valley dry farms of up to 1,600 acres, sold with their combines, granaries and wheat allotments, one of them for $160,000 in 1957.
State's public works chief backs a federal road for Arbon Valley
After four years of pleading by farmers and two chambers of commerce, Idaho's public works commissioner said in August 1944 that the Arbon Valley road belonged on the list of U.S. secondary highways.
Joseph N. Williams, who grew peanuts on the Crystal divide, dies at 69
A Pennsylvania-born farmer who came to Crystal about 1914, raised peanuts in a mountain garden and left the valley around 1940 died in Pocatello in May 1943.
Joe Arbon's well points the way for a test on the Michaud Flat
In 1938 Joe Arbon told a Pocatello committee that a well watered 100 acres of his Arbon Valley farm, as he and Roy Lindley joined a plan for a Michaud Flat test well that struck water in 1939.
Worn out by wheat, Arbon's road across the reservation waits for repair
From 1934 to 1939 the papers followed the effort to rebuild Arbon Valley's worn-out wheat road across the Fort Hall reservation, from a governor's inspection in 1934 to a senator's request in 1939 for $240,000 for a highway through the valley.
Elk season opens on the Pocatello game preserve, and cattlemen worry
In 1933 Idaho drew 150 permits for old bull elk on the Pocatello game preserve, near the heads of Crystal and Midnight creeks, after years of farmers' complaints about elk in their fields.
Ed Keeler, Arbon homesteader and road chairman, dies at 62
J. E. "Ed" Keeler, who homesteaded at Arbon in 1909 and grew some of the valley's best grain, took his own life at his farm in October 1932 after writing of money troubles.