DEC NIBJ: Farmers feel the strain of high production costs
A woman stops to admire a rainbow that seemed to rise from the fog at a Kootenai County farm in this 2023 file photo.
Photo by Michael Frederick
Farmers in Kootenai County are feeling the strain of high production costs, despite agriculture’s continued dominance in Idaho’s economy, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The USDA conducts a Census of Agriculture every five years to gather data from farms across the country, the most recent having been conducted in 2022. A total of 988 Kootenai County farms were included in the 2022 census.
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