🚨The Devastating Affects Of The Idaho Farmland Water Shutoff

The Devastating Affects Of The Idaho Farmland Water Shutoff 🚨 UPDATE: “I've talked to the Governor, and the Governor's position is he can't do anything about this. The, the Department of Water Resources, in the governor's office has sent out the order that they gotta close their wells. That is really a tough deal because these farmers have already planted, the timing on this is horrible.

It costs $2,000 - $4,000 an acre to plant potatoes or more and the crops are in the ground and will be lost without water. Um, and now they have to shut down the wells and give up that investment. Their land is mortgaged, the potato crops are mortgaged, everything's financed, they will basically lose their farms if they turn their water off.

We're having one of the best water years that we've had in the last decade. There's more water than they know what to do with. In this kind of a year, they're deciding that they're going to close down 500,000 acres because of because of the new formula that have been introduced on the prerogative, I guess, of the Department of of Water Resources.

None of it makes any sense. So they would say they're following through with this agreement that they had put in place a few years ago, and the farmers should have known.

I've talked to the governor, and the governor's position is he can't do anything about this because it's mentioned in the constitution and the supreme court has weighed in, but honestly, when I talk to the attorneys they're saying that's that's not a truthful version of what the facts are.

The governor's office has a whole lot of prerogative, the Department of Water Resources has the prerogative on how to interpret these laws.

By the way, the law does give priority to the folks that have senior water rights, so that's partially true. But the governor, I'm gonna plead that the governor exercised leadership here and that the legislature exercise some leadership and put, build some framework.

What we need to have them do is build some framework around these agreements and around the laws so that, um, we don't lose all of our agriculture in this area and that appears to be the plan.”

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