PRESTON — Franklin County residents have filled a variety of Idaho State FFA positions, but Herman Roberts is the first to become president of the state organization.

MONTPELIER — Students, parents, and supporters will be honored for the work in and with the FFA when the Bear Lake High School FFA Awards and Appreciation Banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bear Lake Senior Center in Montpelier.

DRIGGS — As of this year, Teton County 4-H is certified to offer a shotgun club and a hunting club, but because Teton Valley has no official shooting range, the youth organization needs a venue for shooting clay pigeons.

A nursery near Rexburg, where unusual wetland sod mats are grown for restoration projects, is starting its spring season with a desirable dilemma.

Next month, 12 months of being Idaho’s state FFA president concludes for Saydee Longhurst of Shelley.

Madalyn Martin is following in her older sister’s footsteps by belonging to FFA and taking ag classes at Shelley High School.

Jessy Wanner and his team, Hadtobenuts Bob and First Element placed second in the World Chariot Racing competition held last weekend in Ogden, Utah.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The Korn family, owners of Korn Dairy in Terreton, has been named among the 2019 Members of Distinction by Dairy Farmers of America, according to a news release.

Instead of wincing at a problem, welder and designer Leo Castagno confronts it with an inventor’s ingenuity and enthusiasm.

DUBOIS — Dubois- and Terreton-area farmer/rancher MaCoy Ward will receive the 2019 Ed Duren Memorial Young Producer Award at the Eastern Idaho Agriculture Hall of Fame Reception & Banquet on March 22.

Five of eastern Idaho’s most distinguished leaders in the agriculture industry will be inducted into the 47th Eastern Idaho Agriculture Hall of Fame during the annual recognition dinner March 22 at Fort Hall.

The Eagle Rock Chapter of Idaho’s Back Country Horsemen will host the annual state convention at the Shilo Inn and Convention Center in Idaho Falls next week.

Collin Kelley is treasurer of his FFA chapter treasurer and the experience has taught him leadership skills.

Cesar and Danielle Herrera are standing a horse of a different color at stud this year.

POCATELLO — Dr. Lonna Gerstner sees literally thousands of horses in her career but one of her all-time favorites is a stallion she recently purchased — Jess Got Easier.

Initially Hunter West got involved in FFA as a freshman because his uncle Vince Wray is an FFA adviser and ag teacher at Shelley High School.

ST. ANTHONY — Young producers like Kenny and Abby Dalling are the future of American agriculture.

Being president of his FFA chapter has helped Mattson Thompson develop organizational skills he’ll use in the future.

MADISON COUNTY — A 10-year old cow gave birth to Triplets on Scott Wood’s Farm in Madison County, just east of Newdale, on Jan. 26. This will be the cow’s eighth set of calves.

POCATELLO — Idaho potato farmers are getting paid about the same amount for their spuds as they’re investing in raising them, according to a University of Idaho Extension agricultural economist’s report.

POCATELLO — An Arimo ranching couple says they will soon lose access to feed some of their livestock, following a district judge’s decision Monday afternoon to allow the county to go forward with a road-use restriction.