Higher fertilizer prices are making the world’s food supply more expensive and less abundant, as farmers skimp on nutrients for their crops and get lower yields.

Fatalities and injuries from grain engulfment, along with falls from bins, have been a consistent concern in agriculture over the past years

Last year, when irrigation water shut off in September, soil meters located throughout Mike Williamson’s orchards helped him see that he would not need to tap into emergency wells to provide water to his fruit trees and vineyards.

The high price of the herbicide glyphosate means some alternatives will be more affordable for farmers, a weed scientist says.

Idaho’s Republican members of Congress, Reps. Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher, sent a message Tuesday that urged President Joe Biden to act on high fertilizer prices, as the nation’s farms head into planting season.

Idaho’s efforts to recharge the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer have fallen short of the annual target this year.

The snowpack is two-thirds to three-quarters of normal across much of southern Idaho after a dry start to spring.