Two local farmers share concerns about water negotiations and how eastern Idahoans could be affected

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  • @LadyRustedKnight
    @LadyRustedKnight 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    This concerns EVERYONE across the USA. When farmers (in any state) have this kind of crop loss, the food supply chain is affected. Think food prices are bad now, this type of crop loss will add to the crisis. The State Government is legislating FOOD via water laws. The farmers need 100% support from ALL of us, across America. Give the farmers their water! No farmers, no food!

    • @juditharichards3394
      @juditharichards3394 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am old and I am not a farmer, but even I can see that our Government has sold us out. I am afraid that the Government (starting with biden.) we have been sold out for MONEY and too who I ask myself? The Chinese. When is American 🇺🇸 people going to open there eyes 👀 and see that we are being destroyed from within. NO farmers NO food. God save our COUNTRY. Sincerely.

  • @shaynaletter5589
    @shaynaletter5589 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Thank you, Nate, and the team at East Idaho News for your continuing and indepth coverage of this water rights issue facing local family farmers, and ultimately the economic and food security for Idaho. This issue, water rights, will continue to grow as global warming impacts global climate, and water becomes even more scarce.

  • @ceceliagonzalez3715
    @ceceliagonzalez3715 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I am pleased to see East Idaho News covering this issue! Thank you! This issue affects EVERYONE! A loss of these farms will change this economy! It is pertinent to get this information out to the public.

  • @August84118
    @August84118 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Excellent interview! Extremely informative Nate, thank you! Thank you gentlemen for bringing to light what is going on here in Idaho. May God watch over and bless all of you, our farmers and their families.

  • @angelabuchanan104
    @angelabuchanan104 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Thank you for covering this issue!! Keep it up and please find out the governor's position on 'drying up' 200,000 farm acres in East Idaho!

  • @et4615
    @et4615 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Everyone needs to share this on every platform you have! CRIMINAL!

  • @roxannemiller2378
    @roxannemiller2378 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Maybe Governor Brad Little needs to go without water for a few days.

    • @DonnaMM6361
      @DonnaMM6361 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@roxannemiller2378 When is the next election?

  • @angelavanerp2190
    @angelavanerp2190 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thanks for focusing on this-these farmers need to be represented at these meetings and negotiations, they shouldn't have to wake up ne day be shut off. If they were not represented, how can they come to an agreement behind their back? The way farmers are being treated in this country is disgraceful! Everyone needs to wake up to the fact that NO FARMS=NO FOOD!

  • @melissaconnellyjones2622
    @melissaconnellyjones2622 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I just can’t wrap my head around how anyone in the government thinks this is a great idea? Yes, water is a precious commodity and should be conserved but, not at the expense of our food supply. Bet they would have no problem approving housing developments with plenty of nice green watered lawns wasting all sorts of water on that same land after they drive the farmers out.

    • @DonnaMM6361
      @DonnaMM6361 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Who really thinks that you can trust the government "research" ? Same folks who say that beef cattle farther too much. It's all B.S.

  • @LinJen2
    @LinJen2 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    It is time for new leadership in Idaho. There should have been no reason to curtail that many acres in Eastern Idaho. I think that the Governor, Lt governor, and Idaho Power should be looked into and make this right for everyone. No one entity should have that much control. It should be worked out to the best advantage for all. We lose water for farmers, then we lose feed for dairy. We lose feed for dairy, we lose milk, we lose and lose and lose. Farmers spend money, their employees spend money all boosting the local economy. Remember, governor, you were elected to boost Idaho, not destroy it.

    • @August84118
      @August84118 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      These are all such important points. I don’t think many people realize the cataclysmic chain reaction or the actual fragility of our food chain.

    • @jerryschneider145
      @jerryschneider145 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe he wants to follow the rules. This whole problem started because some farmers did not follow the rules. Imagine that, poor little farmers with no political power not following the rules, hard to believe.

    • @LinJen2
      @LinJen2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @jerryschneider145 Do you have any idea what agriculture contributes to the economy? You eat because of a farmer. You have thousands of people working in Agriculture related jobs who, in turn, spend money in your local economy. That trickles down to other areas such as the Dairy Industry, the Beef industry, and around it goes. These farmers hire other people. Families depend on them in this area. It's like the circle of life. Industry helps industry. Now, when they curtail the farmers, I wonder if you will be one of the first in line to complain about even higher grocery prices. Or simply the lack of not finding food on your store shelves. This affects more than just agriculture. It will affect us all.

    • @August84118
      @August84118 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LinJen2 too many people don’t appreciate the sacrifice, intelligence, hard work dedication and discipline it takes to be in agriculture. They have only connection they have with their food is the plastic containers or Mylar it’s packaged in. The only thing these farmers and ranchers are guilty of is trusting their government.

    • @jerryschneider145
      @jerryschneider145 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LinJen2 Farmers in Twin Falls feed people too, and employ people too. What makes the farmers in the Upper Snake better than them? If there were no rules and no laws you know these damn farmers would pump every drop of water they could out of the ground and out of the river - You know that!!

  • @timvandermey4792
    @timvandermey4792 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Criminal!
    Keep fighting!
    Danya

  • @Sunset-chaser777
    @Sunset-chaser777 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    All Utah reservoirs are at 100%
    God Save The Farmers!!!

  • @melissachandler4422
    @melissachandler4422 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    One reason i saw for this situation was because a mine was starting and they needed the water for what they're doing. A cobalt mine.

    • @RedRose4141
      @RedRose4141 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I wouldn't doubt these foreign mining companies are digging in more areas than just Challis-Salmon. I put Idaho cobalt mining in TH-cam search and found more with different mining names had been mining it already yrs ago.

    • @DonnaMM6361
      @DonnaMM6361 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Really?

    • @margaretthatcher6828
      @margaretthatcher6828 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Correct...cobalt takes a lot of water.

    • @bonniemarsing701
      @bonniemarsing701 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's about obtaining the water for nuclear 4:04 power.

    • @bonniemarsing701
      @bonniemarsing701 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@RedRose4141It's about obtaining the water for nuclear power.

  • @treenamorgan2469
    @treenamorgan2469 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This is ridiculous. We seem to have plenty of water for out of state developers, out of state generated power sales, and….cobalt mining. It is disgusting. Stop every pond, golf course, and all development until it’s corrected.

  • @kathyhennigan7807
    @kathyhennigan7807 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Governor Little needs to permanently fix this issue or expect to be voted out of office. I have voted for him twice in the past but the concerns I have for the farmers in East Idaho goes far beyond a political choice for those in office, now and in the future.

    • @steven4315
      @steven4315 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Any governor who can solve the Western water problem would be the greatest governor in history.

  • @judybassett4631
    @judybassett4631 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Why are we fighting over God given water? Man has no control of this, though some evils think they have more power than God. Who created water rights, for what purpose? Have to think deep these days. Deep into WATER..

  • @roberto1466
    @roberto1466 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Interview the Governor!
    Ask him straight up what's his position is on all this. Or is he part of the global agenda?

    • @sweettoothmomma2621
      @sweettoothmomma2621 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@roberto1466 I would love to see them Nate interview the governor! Maybe he will we are all watching!

    • @August84118
      @August84118 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think they are all part of the global agenda…right down to many of our mayors.

  • @pconan1
    @pconan1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks for covering this topic

  • @JeepGirl941
    @JeepGirl941 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    "Could possibly be" not true/not reality at the moment and just speculation. Absolutely NO REASON for this govt overreach- especially for something that IS NOT TRUE! The idiots that imposed this harm on these farmers needs to compensate each farmer for every financial loss they caused!

  • @carlatamanczyk3891
    @carlatamanczyk3891 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Water issues are political issues. Whoever ever is stirring this up needs to be held accountable and stopped.
    There is plenty of water... plenty...

  • @brucebosshardt3904
    @brucebosshardt3904 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    For heavens sake, 70% of the earth's surface is water. Just let every landowner dig as many ponds and swales as their heart desires and force virtually all rain run off to percolate into the ground to refill the groundwater supply. It will not only make their land more valuable, it will mitigate flooding and droughts. The solution is easy but government regulators don't like easy solutions.

    • @yomama05
      @yomama05 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's true, but most of that isn't usable without desalination.

  • @rt3box6tx74
    @rt3box6tx74 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We southern TX Panhandle/South Plains farmers fought and won against water metering and overuse curtailment.
    The boomer generation had formed a water conservation district in the early 1960s about the same time that water wells for irrigation were turning our mative prairie lands from predominately cattle operations to irrigated row crop farming.
    Water district/ farmer/board members got very lucky in selecting the right guy to manage the water organization. For 30+ yrs there was never a problem under his management. Little did we know or appreciate his political reach until he died. The vultures were waiting to swoop in.
    Within a couple yrs we had a few small towns and one small city that came after our water by quietly campaigning and getting their candidates elected onto our water district board claiming "stakeholder" status. They were the usual promoters of unbridled city growth and their bankers who had supported people with no guilt about sending farmers in 20 counties into bankruptcy. Ironically, some of their bankers were our bankers too. Things with the water district had run so smoothly during the extended run with the farmer selected management we mistakenly made assumptions that we'd have control in perpetuity.
    Our water district monitored annual draw down of the aquifer which set us up for a nice depletion allowance/annual tax deduction. The district had offices in county seats where land owners could get a permit for a new well completely hassle free. We had regs about distance between wells and preventing irrigation well runoff from exiting the property it came from. We had a problem with some mail carriers turning farmers in whenever water occasionally got onto county roads. To solve this issue Farm Service Agency devised a program to finance 50 - 75% cost of runoff water catchment basins and reuse systems.
    Blowback: First we pointed out to the city planners they had no water restrictions on residents or businesses in their county. Our organization had given property tax collected from us to solicit design of water saving irrigation practices that we all adopted as we could afford to. Those options had led us through open ditch/gravity irrigation, to center pivot sprinklers and many water saving upgrades, on to the initiation of drip irrigation systems.
    We held meetings where this new board of directors and a young man claiming to be a hydrologist they had hired for expert advice appeared to answer questions.
    Their mistake was assuming we were all a bunch of hickbilly farmers with zero knowledge or sophistication. We also had a healthy share of young farmers who were ready to go to jail.
    The presenters took the stage of our local auditorium in fear. Many board members on the stage chose not to speak. There was the usual 3 minute time limited Q&A from the crowd. The applause was deafening. The water district board got the point after a two hour "meeting" that we had lawsuits and legislation ready to roll. They slinked away back to their ostentatious offices in the banks and office buildings 80 miles away.
    We began to study their proposal line by line. They planned to pit the city voter against the farmer/landowner to confiscate our water. Along the way we found there were zero regulations on city dweller's water use. Naturally we assumed the entire city of 200K population would be financing zeriscapes for all lawn spaces and parks. That discovery was the straw that broke the camel's back. Farmers were ready to fight...whether that meant courtroom battles or fisticuffs no one cared.
    Us unsophisticated country folks organized campaigns to bring awareness of exactly how much our business contributed to that city. We threatened boycotts on all the high-end purchases from auto to brick companies to lumber yards. We had a good time sharing our story in every business we frequented for a year. These neveau riche tyrants drunk on success in suburbia can be brought to heel.
    Never give up. Some of our over-leveraged young farmers decided to sell out for worry that there will be a round two. The landowners operating mortgage-free have never stopped innovating and diversifying our operations. There is a resurgence of animal husbandry and all the construction of fencing, outbuildings and animal handling facilities that comes with organic change.
    Feed corn has all but disappeared as a cash crop here. Cattle are rotated between wheat graze and sorghum-silage/hay diet for cheap gain. Our county population has sluffed off a lot of dead wood. Our schools are no longer stressed for space. Our county is paying less and less to central emergency hospital district services in the two closest small cities.
    Our most devastating loss was Gen Z progeny of pioneering families who left hoping for greener pastures. The irrigation well metering concept was dropped.

  • @garymcmullin2292
    @garymcmullin2292 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Seems to me the water should be controlled and managed through the Idaho Legislature, not the Governor, those appointed by him or alphabet agencies. I heard comments that the farming community was unsure about how serious the model enforcement would be, is that to mean that Agriculture decided to resist the model implementation? Jr water rights always have been a wildcard, we have the same thing here in South Central Washington, in this season the Jr. holders are faced with shutoffs for periods because the surface water projects are not able to deliver. Building farming empires on the basis of Junior rights is dicey, you have to expect the eventual water cut off. I will say that the claim for reservoirs running peak fullness and the aquifer being stable does not suggest a need for government throttling of the water, the reliance on models should be closely examined. Of all places for this to happen, IDAHO??? Would never have expected it, thought Idaho was and is the most conservative, sensible down to Earth state left in the US. Me thinks some bad influence is circulating in high places, need to root them out before you become just another place where woke idiocy prevails.

  • @janhyslop2915
    @janhyslop2915 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great interview of the farmers. Keep this up. Their perspective needs to be out there for the general public. The majority of people commenting on the water curtailment don’t have background in Idaho water law. Idaho Water Resources used a battering ram rather than use a collaborative approach. IDWR is forced to follow the law, yet the politicians are the ones who needed to bring people together before the curtailment blew the situation up. I guess they got the groundwater users’ attention. But at great cost.

  • @lynnemarieallan5013
    @lynnemarieallan5013 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As an Idahoan it is beyond us as to why our Governor would allow this to happen to our farmers. This is not fair. Save our farms and farmers and reduce the building of apartments, housing and turning our state into an over populated mess. Farms our one of the main foundations of our state and should be helped.

  • @vjs4539
    @vjs4539 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The people behind this water curtailment are 100x more evil than chad and lori daybell

  • @DonnaMM6361
    @DonnaMM6361 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Someone got to Gov Little. He should be investigated.

  • @maryannweldin4633
    @maryannweldin4633 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Changing weather patterns are called cycles

  • @kevintaylor4913
    @kevintaylor4913 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Deny or Affirm Governor Little. What is your answer Governor Little?

  • @buckmeister78
    @buckmeister78 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who is on the board at the Dept. of water resources. They should be held accountable for not taking care of the agriculture industry in Idaho!

  • @SuperMissblueeyes
    @SuperMissblueeyes 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The stupidity of this criminal restriction on farmers is next level! I honestly don't understand how US state governments get away with things like this. Here in the UK, if there's a water shortage, farmers are given the same priority as hospitals, fire fighters, etc. Government decisions like this in the US boggle my mind. There's no way our UK government would get away with anything like this. not that they'd be stupid enough to try. Our government may be ignorant on a lot of things, but they wouldn't be this stupid.

  • @jefffreestone8476
    @jefffreestone8476 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We are conditioned to listen to those authorities who supposedly have our best interest in mind.
    But this is lichen to taking the jab few years back.
    Don’t listen to them, they will admit they were wrong when your crops are dead.

  • @JohnSmith-zo1ic
    @JohnSmith-zo1ic 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    nate, when are you going to air the interview with julie rowe? i have been checking every day since you said you were going to air it.

  • @ericsteinhauer3991
    @ericsteinhauer3991 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The water rights need to be renegotiated.

  • @lukeslc-xd8ds
    @lukeslc-xd8ds 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Didn't vote for little, didn't care for the way he MIShandled the covid "crisis", and I still do not care for him.

  • @Sgt_Schultz
    @Sgt_Schultz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These ground water district are to blame for this. They could have use the 2009 mitigation plan to avoid curtailment which would’ve been really feasible with all the reservoir full. 3:55

  • @Sgt_Schultz
    @Sgt_Schultz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Averaging is not in the 2015 agreement it might have been talked about when setting up the agreement but it’s not in the agreement they signed. They are using this as an excuse for their breach of the agreement in 2021 and 2022.

  • @maryannweldin4633
    @maryannweldin4633 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Idaho power huh. Follow the money of who’s being paid off.

  • @kevintaylor4913
    @kevintaylor4913 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They drained Lake Powell on purpose to fill Lake Havasu. The Los Angels Water Board profited to move water to Arizona.

    • @steven4315
      @steven4315 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Powell would fill Havasu a 100 times over.

  • @bradley-eblesisor
    @bradley-eblesisor 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing......

  • @karenmaguire4250
    @karenmaguire4250 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Water is a precious finite resource. Conservation, management and science are able to provide solutions to benefit all interested parties. Community food security is dependant on farmers. Stop building Mcmansions, end corporate greed and poor governmental land management policies. Support sustainable growing practices and partners.

  • @johndunn9819
    @johndunn9819 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just deny you are out of water... This coping method has proven quite effective so far. At least for the short term...

  • @RandyKildow
    @RandyKildow 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When you are using something you do not own or using more than you own, someone stops you from using what you do not own. This is the problem. Then you cry wolf because you got caught. No one is to blame except the individuals using more water than they have the right to. Don't twist the facts.

  • @jerryschneider145
    @jerryschneider145 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The farmers in Twin Falls want to plant as many acres as they can and become filthy rich too. So why are they wrong and East Idaho farmers right? How come Madison County is not part of this problem? Oh, I guess they followed the rules.

    • @jerryschneider145
      @jerryschneider145 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      P.S. tell the poor ranchers (another bunch of cry babies) to get their damn cattle off public land!

  • @eddygoodwin7089
    @eddygoodwin7089 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Here’s a free tip,stop watering the roads.

  • @bonniemarsing701
    @bonniemarsing701 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The power companies benefit wants nuclear power.
    The farmers should not be penalized for it.😢

    • @mae-qt8hw
      @mae-qt8hw 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Especially Intermountain power

    • @steven4315
      @steven4315 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mae-qt8hw Intermountain is in Utah.

  • @anchmcle
    @anchmcle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Project 2025

    • @RedRose4141
      @RedRose4141 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Prob

  • @amysoos3552
    @amysoos3552 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    COBALT MINE….

    • @bonniemarsing701
      @bonniemarsing701 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No. It's about obtaining the water for nuclear power. The power companies want control of nuclear power.

  • @bonniemarsing701
    @bonniemarsing701 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its all about obtaining the water for Nuclear power.😢

  • @NunYoBizz1977
    @NunYoBizz1977 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Bill Gates' or China will buy your farmland 🤣