statewide agricultural journal
The NewsBF article, entitled "Couldn’t make last
Friday’s Farm Tour? The full story on Farm Tour
2016," was written by NewsBF newswriter Mary
Fioravanti, and was originally published on our
online news website on May 26. The article
described Ms. Fioravanti's impressions of the
day she spent with this year's Boundary County
Farm Tour.The Farm Tour is organized annually by the Boundary County Soil Conservation District and the Idaho Farm Bureau, and is always an anticipated, educational, and fun event. This year's Farm Tour stopped by the Search and Rescue Dock to participate in releasing juvenile sturgeon, raised in the Kootenai Tribe's hatchery, into the Kootenai River. The tour then traveled to different areas of the county where participants learned about dikes on the Kootenai River, about the role of forest management in fire prevention, then later about invasive weeds in Idaho. The tour was wrapped up with a trip to Houck Farms, owned and operated by Tim and Julie Dillin, where tour participants had the opportunity to inspect the newly-started flour mill, learn about the operation of the farm, and learn about and actually ride in some of the farm's equipment,
Shortly after Ms. Fioravanti's article appeared on NewsBF, we were contacted by John Thompson, Director of Public Relations for the Idaho Farm Bureau. Mr. Thompson indicated he had enjoyed reading the article about our local Farm Tour, and inquired about the possibility of re-printing the article in the Farm Bureau's statewide magazine. Ms. Fioravanti's article has just appeared, with accompanying photographs, in the July 2016 issue of the Gem State Producer.
The Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, headquartered in Boise, was originally organized in 1939 as an independent farm organization, according to their website. "Idaho Farm Bureau Federation is a free, independent, non-governmental, voluntary organization of farm and ranch families united for the purpose of analyzing their problems, and formulating action to achieve educational improvement, economic opportunity, and social advancement and thereby, to promote the national well-being."
To read the original NewsBF Farm Tour article written by Mary Fioravanti, click here.
To see the online version of the Idaho Farm Bureau's Gem State Producer magazine where the article is reprinted, click here and go to page 13 of the online magazine.