Idaho's ability to diversify production and develop new technologies will enhance the environment, increase production, and boost profitability of one of its most important economic sectors.

Idaho will have both more organic and genetically modified crops. I think there'll be more corporate farms and ranches and fewer small, family-run operations.

We'll see more small and mid-sized family farmers and ranchers marketing their products locally to restaurants, grocery stores, local food processors, and farmers' markets.

Idaho will be in the vanguard of states creating new uses for agricultural products, the improvement of health and nutrition, and the development of the international marketplace.

I expect more alliances within segments of the beef production chain. That will allow consumers more choices in products they buy bying locally, for exemple.

Idaho will continue to make our name heard in the agricultural community despite the growing population. Our farmers and citizens will keep our state fertile and growing.

Treasure Valley will lose a major crop unless changes are made in local planning and zoning and national trade policies. We may lose our seed production.

More farms will grow their own biodiesel. Biotechnology will be eye-popping-everything from growing enhanced apples to new processing that turns straw into shirts.

It is important to make the potato literally immune to the myriad of ways that natural circumstances can degrade crop quality-potato genetics, improved inputs, and agricultural practices.

We'll see additional movement in green payments for practices benefiting air, water, crop quality, global warming issues, and wildlife and fisheries habitat.