BOISE—A member of the Nampa-Caldwell Agribusiness Committee has asked Idaho’s largest daily newspaper to cover more local agricultural news.
In a letter sent to the Idaho Statesman July 8, former state Rep. Darrell Bolz thanked the Boise-based newspaper for running a story about crop-identifying signs in Lewis and Idaho counties in its July 5 Local section.
But Bolz, an agricultural consultant and former University of Idaho extension agent, also said Lewis and Idaho counties, which are in Northern Idaho, don’t qualify as local. Boise is located in Ada County in southwestern Idaho.
“I thanked them for doing something about agriculture, but why don’t they do more local stories about agriculture,” Bolz told Capital Press.
The agribusiness committee is a joint creation of the Nampa and Caldwell chambers, which are located in Canyon County, which borders Ada County.
Bolz said that during the group’s July 6 meeting, a number of members were frustrated that the paper covered a story about crop signs in counties so far away when the committee has been putting out crop signs for three decades.
“The committee certainly appreciates any news in your paper that pertains to agriculture but wonders why more ‘local’ agricultural news is not printed,” Bolz states in his letter. “It needs to be noted that the Caldwell and Nampa chambers of commerce have been putting up crop signs for many years in Canyon County.”
Source: www.capitalpress.com