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Farm Bureau is sponsoring a Speech Contest for Idaho students in grades 9-12 with prizes available at both the District level and State level.  This year's theme is "Idaho Agriculture, Telling Your Story, Changing Perceptions.  Canyon County Farm Bureau's speech contest will take place on January 31, 2013 at 7:00 pm at the CCFB office in Caldwell.  For questions or to reserve your spot in this District Contest, please contact Roger Batt (208.888.0988 or roger@amgidaho.com) or Gina Davis (208.880.8938).  View/print a pdf of speech contest guidelines/requirements as well as a sample of the judging form which will be used.

Canyon County Farm Bureau has a strong commitment to education and encouraging promising students to excel in agricultural studies.  The Foundation funds one $1,000 scholarship and one $1,000 per year/four-year commitment to the student as long as they remain enrolled in college in an Agricultural field of study and maintain a 2.5 GPA.  View more scholarship information, an application and our current recipients.

This is a study of the economic impacts of irrigated agriculture on the Canyon County economy and an analysis of the county’s economic base. It is an update of a previous report completed in 2002. This study is based on year 2007. The previous study was based on year 2000. A major conclusion of this study is that population, economic, and social trends have continued in Canyon County since the previous report. The results of this study confirm, refine, and add robustness to the earlier study.  Read more...