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210 S 5th W, Rigby ID 83442 208-745-6664 ext. 4 January 2024
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Tree Sales Begins Jan. 1 High School Scholarships

Scholarship deadline Feb. 7 2023 scholarship recipients were Hannah Clarke, Hallee Miller,
Tree order deadline April 1 Cooper Shaffer, and Hailey Stucki all of Rigby HS .
Tree Pick-up Day April 8-12 Ririe, Rigby, and West Jefferson High School Seniors who major in 210 S 5th W, Rigby ID 83442
an agricultural-related field can apply for a $1,000 scholarship.
Applications from Jefferson SWCD office, or through FFA teachers
at each school. Deadline to apply is February 7, 2024.
Soil & Range Judging Event
Students from Ririe, Rigby, and West Jefferson compete each fall in
a range and soil evaluation event. It is a cooperative effort between
local high schools, NRCS, BLM and Jefferson SWCD. This past fall
1st place Soil Judging Team from Ririe HS with the event was held at the Ririe Idaho Crop Farm in the Ririe area.
FFA Advisor Jake Landon High individual scores for Soil Evaluation were Austin Landon of
Conservation Farmer of the Year Ririe HS, Kaden Ricks of Rigby Middle School, Levi Simmons of
Rigby HS. Ririe HS earned high team score for Soil Evaluation.
Brock Egan is 2023 Conservation Farmer of the
Rigby Middle School second and Sugar Salem third.
Year. He was given the award by district board
member Lanny Burtenshaw during the Farmers High individual scores for Range Evaluation were Rusty Hatch of
& Merchants Banquet at the Rigby Fairgrounds North Gem HS, Ryver Hayden of North Gem, Dallin Christopherson
in March. of Rigby HS. Range Evaluation high team was North Gem HS, with
Rigby HS, second and Sugar-Salem HS third.
Brock started helping on his family’s farm when
he was 8 years old and took on more responsibil-
ities as he grew, running the farm with his mother Left- Recognizing Don Natural Resource Camp NRCS Program Sign-up
by the time he was ten. At 13 his family bought a Bird for 42 years Teens, 12-18, can attend U of I Natural Resource Camp. NRCS accepts applications year around for Environmental
1000 acre dry grazing ranch with 100 acres of serving West Jeffer- Teachers can also participate. Scholarship applications Quality Incentive Programs, EQIP, for improving soil,
irrigated land in the Medicine Lodge area. After son as FFA advisor. available to attend camp in Ketchum, June, 2024 water, air, plants, animals, and energy on your land. Pro-
Brock married his wife Kodi the family bought a Poster Contest jects could include land leveling, structures for water con-
He retired in spring
neighboring ranch. The operation is now 6000 IASCD Poster Contest for 6th graders theme for 2023 trol, flood to sprinkler conversion, flow measuring devices,
of 2023.
acres of pivots, private dry grazing, and BLM was “One water”. Judging is in October. Students get LESA nozzle packages, replacing pumps, and high tun-
Right– hemp field nels. Soil health practices could include minimum tillage
and forest allotments for 1200 pair, in addition to visit on District Tour cash awards at county, division, state, & national levels.
a 10,000 head feed lot. Brock and his father have District winners were 1st place Annabelle Nelson, 2nd and/or cover crops. EQIP sign-up 2 applications are due in
installed pivots and gravity flow pipelines for wa- Lila Romney, and 3rd place James Coles, all of Ririe Ele- the NRCS office by April 5, 2024. For more information
ter conservation, introduced strip –till and no-till Speech Contest on the EQIP program or to obtain an application, please
mentary. Other participants were from West Jefferson Ele-
into their operation, and have worked on renova- High School students participated in an IASCD Speech contest, mentary and Farnsworth Middle School. contact the Rigby NRCS Office at 208-745-6664 ext. 3 or
tions on 2 miles of Upper Irving Creek. This lead 2023 with the theme “One Water”. Bailee Ricks earned first place stop in and visit at 210 S 5th W in Rigby.
to conservation efforts on 14 miles of Medicine and Hunter Anderson second place in district. They both went to
Lodge Creek amongst his neighbors. division where Bailee earned second place and Hunter third place.
Brock’s parents are Brion & DeAnna Egan. He Bailee placed fourth at state. ASCD speech contest is open to all
and his wife Kodi have 4 children– Hunter, Shilo, high school students in the district. It takes place each October.
angel Kylee, and Maesyn.
Jefferson SWCD Supervisors
Chairman Pat Hendren
Vice-Chairman Joe Slagowski
Secretary/ Treasurer Ryan Holman
Board Members: Lanny Burtenshaw,
Ric Sterzer, Bob Harrop, Allen Lovell
Administrative Assistant Linda Patterson
Tree Sales Aide Lisa Godfrey
Board meetings are the second Thursday of each month. Above- Chairman Pat Hendren presents a check for $31,750 to
Call for time. the Mud Lake Fair & Rodeo Board to help fund the new livestock
building .
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Josh Miller, District Conservationist
Above– Board members present Pete McGarry recognition for nearly 40 All district programs and services are offered on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orien-
Jessica Eck, Resource Conservationist tation, and marital or family status.
years of service on the JSWCD board.
Mary Jennings, Soil Conservation Technician