Eastern Idaho farmers may soon be out of water after the state issued a major curtailment.
"Well, as you said, the state of Idaho and the Idaho Department of Water Resources has issued this curtailment of 500,000 acres. And to help put that in perspective, that's basically 781 square miles of farm ground that is being taken out of production," Murdock stressed.
"I’m one of the smaller farms. But, let me tell you the impact as a potato grower. I grow 23 million large orders of McDonald’s French fries and of the grain side of my operation, I grow 16 million loaves of bread," he explained.
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higher prices on the way!