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Our Changing Idaho: With Few Protections In Place, Farmland Is Gobbled Up By Subdivisions

Published June 27, 2018 at 4:01 PM MDT

Since the 1970s, more than 40 percent of Ada County's farmland has disappeared, according to the Ada County Soil and Conservation District.

Boise State Public Radio continues its series looking at the growth in Idaho and the various social, economic and environmental impacts on the people and institutions of the state. The third installment of Our Changing Idaho airs on Wednesday's Idaho Matters.

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