UI Extension studies economics of leaving straw in fields

UI Extension studies economics of leaving straw in fields

University of Idaho Extension educator Grant Loomis has noticed an increasing number of Blaine County farmers have been letting their straw rot in the field after grain harvest rather than baling and selling it.

“This is the life of an ordinary woman. She was not a great figure in history, this woman, but she sheds light on the fate of a generation at that time,” says Ólína Kjerúlf Þorvarðardóttir about Sigríður Pálsdóttir. Her story is told in the biography Strá fíðir straumi by Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir, which received the Hagþenki award in February. Kiljan’s reviewers reviewed the book. The story of one woman tells the story of an entire generation “…