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Originally Posted by Cottonwood
Agreed. I read somewhere that Idaho is poised to knock out Oregon soon as the second largest Hops growing state. Our wine regions in the Treasure Valley and up north are world class and decorated with competition medals, and world class Vodka's are being produced in the heart of Mormon country (oh the scandal) in SE Idaho and by other companies in non Mormon country near Boise, and America's first distillery pub is in Boise on the Basque Block.
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I would love to see ID replace OR with Hops and most other positive things
I guess we've learned to adjust and mostly appreciate our newer neighbors from CA and WA.
I'll say this is just my opinion, although I know it is not.
The transplants from OR seem to be different than the other states. Maybe as more OR businesses either relocate to the east side of Idaho, or open stores/offices here, we'll see some change. I've lived in various states and have never seen anything like it.
One of my good friends, who lives in OR, explained some of why many from OR feel and act superior to ID residents. I'll only list two important points from that discussion:
1. No one deserves or should tolerate verbal, emotional, physical and/or sexual abuse. No man, woman or child deserves to be abused.
2. Closely related to my first point, only those with low self esteem try to put another person down. Temporarily that makes the abusive one feel briefly a little better about him/herself to trash another.
It makes me wonder if OR companies who are doing more business in Idaho are transferring some of their "troubled" employees to Idaho. I am serious.
We had monsoon rains here just as our grains, including Malt Barley were ready to be cut. Extremely, hot and dry weather about a month prior.
As a result, farmers from Twin Falls all through Southern ID to the Montana border have had extreme crop loss. Not sure if 33-50% can be salvaged or not.
Apparently, this happened (I was told) in the late 60s too.
Aug. has been a LONG month. Didn't know if others in ID were aware of the severe crop loss. I hope the Hops are ok