Thousands attend `Treasure Our Valley` festival
(WorldNews Environment)

By Sean Ellis Idaho Farm Bureau Federation CALDWELL - Several thousand people from southwestern Idaho turned out to support farmers and the preservation of farmland during the inaugural Treasure Our Valley festival Oct. 5. The event was meant to celebrate agriculture in the valley and also to encourage support for protecting farm and ranch land, said George Crookham, one of the event`s organizers. A lot of people are starting to notice that farmland in the valley is disappearance at a rapid rate, he said, and the event was a chance to rally them and others to support efforts to preserve agricultural land. `Just in the last 10 years, there is so much more interest in disappearing farmland,`...