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NewsBF writer's article featured in
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July 9, 2016 |
An article published by NewsBF six weeks ago
about the Farm Tour, organized and sponsored by
the Boundary County Soil Conservation District
and the Idaho Farm Bureau, has been picked up
and re-published statewide in the Idaho Farm
Bureau's Gem State Producer magazine.
 The NewsBF article, entitled "Couldn’t make last
Friday’s Farm Tour? The full story on Farm Tour
2016," was written by NewsBF newswriter Mary
Fioravanti, and was originally published on our
online news website on May 26. The article
described Ms. Fioravanti's impressions of the
day she spent with this year's Boundary County
Farm Tour.
The Farm Tour is organized annually by the
Boundary County Soil Conservation District and
the Idaho Farm Bureau, and is always an
anticipated, educational, and fun event.
This year's Farm Tour stopped by the Search and
Rescue Dock to participate in releasing juvenile
sturgeon, raised in the Kootenai Tribe's
hatchery, into the Kootenai River. The
tour then traveled to different areas of the
county where participants learned about dikes on
the Kootenai River, about the role of forest
management in fire prevention, then later about
invasive weeds in Idaho. The tour was
wrapped up with a trip to Houck Farms, owned and
operated by Tim and Julie Dillin, where tour
participants had the opportunity to inspect the
newly-started flour mill, learn about the
operation of the farm, and learn about and
actually ride in some of the farm's equipment,
Shortly after Ms. Fioravanti's article appeared
on NewsBF, we were contacted by John Thompson,
Director of Public Relations for the Idaho Farm
Bureau. Mr. Thompson indicated he had
enjoyed reading the article about our local Farm
Tour, and inquired about the possibility of
re-printing the article in the Farm Bureau's
statewide magazine. Ms. Fioravanti's
article has just appeared, with accompanying
photographs, in the July 2016 issue of the
Gem State Producer.
The Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, headquartered
in Boise, was originally organized in 1939 as an
independent farm organization, according to
their website. "Idaho Farm Bureau
Federation is a free, independent,
non-governmental, voluntary organization of farm
and ranch families united for the purpose of
analyzing their problems, and formulating action
to achieve educational improvement, economic
opportunity, and social advancement and thereby,
to promote the national well-being."
To read the original NewsBF Farm Tour article
written by Mary Fioravanti,
click here.
To see the online version of the Idaho Farm
Bureau's Gem State Producer magazine where the
article is reprinted,
click here and go to page 13 of the online
magazine. |
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