WATCH: Farmers get on tractors to demonstrate against water curtailment

IDAHO FALLS — Gov. Brad Little is successful municipality to speak astatine Greater Idaho Falls Chamber luncheon astir nan h2o curtailment rumor affecting farmers successful eastbound Idaho. Dozens of farmers rode into nan gathering connected their tractors and parked extracurricular nan Westbank Convention Center successful Idaho Falls.

The Idaho Department of Water Resources issued a curtailment bid that requires 6,400 inferior groundwater authorities holders who pump disconnected nan Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer to unopen disconnected their water, and Little has expressed his support for nan measure.

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We’ll station much accusation astir nan governor’s sojourn and nan farmers’ reactions.