Idaho's Labor Shortage: A Farmer's Nightmare
Emily Fisher is running for Idaho House District 23, a grassroots candidate in one of Idaho's reddest seats. Water, tariffs, farm labor, and trust.
She's a business coach and an artist, not a politician, and her family has farmed and ranched in Idaho for over a century. District 23 stretches from southern Nampa to the Oregon border to the Nevada border out to Mountain Home — enormous, rural, agricultural, and running short on water.
We get into what federal policy is actually doing on the ground there: budget cuts hitting the agencies that monitor Idaho's water during a drought year…
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