Cassidy Woolsey

Rob Sharpnack speaks to attendees at the summer meeting in June. Image by Cassidy Woolsey. As water users look for ways to conserve water, Rob Sharpnack, state CREP manager for the Soil & Water Conservation Commission, outlined the benefits of Idaho's Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) during the Idaho Water Users Association summer meeting in June. Managing Editor / Ag Proud – Idaho Cassidy Woolsey serves as managing editor for Ag Proud – Idaho, covering agriculture across the s...

Erin Whorton details Idaho's winter and the months ahead during the Idaho Water Users Association summer meeting in Sun Valley. Image by Cassidy Woolsey. “It was the warmest winter on record since 1895,” said Erin Whorton, a hydrologist and water supply specialist with the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service during the Idaho Water Users Association summer meeting in June.

As I began writing this, I was visiting family in Utah and it snowed. Managing Editor / Ag Proud – Idaho Cassidy Woolsey serves as managing editor for Ag Proud – Idaho, covering agriculture across the s... At the end of May! When I came home, the pressure on our irrigation sprinklers were fizzling. We are already low on water. At the end of May! It seems every year we talk about water – and whine about water. There’s never enough for some, and then all at once there’s too much for others.