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IDAHO STATESMAN: A McCl atchy Newspaper ,1200 N. Curtis Road, Boi se, ID • P . O. Box 40, Boi se, ID 83707 • ( 208) 377 - 6200 • © 2014 I daho Stat esman, V ol . 149, No. 307 ,5 sections, 34pages INSIDE TODAY “Y ou hav e t o get out.” AHMED ASANI, 48, of Aleppo, about the violence in the Syrian civil war NATION/WORLD, A5 I d a ho S t a t e s m a n WEDNESDAY , MAY 28, 2014 72° / 43° SEE A10 PARTLY CLOUDY 7 5 CENTS OBAMA MAPS OUT TIMELINE FOR AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL A5 What kind of project isthis? I t’s a center for buses operated by Valley Regional T ransit, the T reasure Val- ley’s public transportation authority . I t’s underthe area of The Grove Plaza. The hub is one component of City Center Plaza, a two-building, $70 million projectthatwill include retail, office, convention and parking space. Who’s doing this project? The Gar dner Co., the Salt Lake City-based developerthat built 8th & Main. Who el sei s invol ved in Ci ty Center Pl aza ? T ech fi rm Clearwat er Anal yt - i cs i s partnering wi th Gar dner on the Clearwat er Building, a 206, 000- squar e-footr et ail and offi ce building j ust west of the U . S. Bank t ower . The Gr eat er Boi se Audi t ori um Di stri ctwill pa y for construction of a ball r oom, ki t chen and otherspace in abuilding j ust south of the t ower . Boi se’s urban r enewal agency i s putting up some of the money forthe tr ansi t cent er . What kind of groundbreaking ceremony can weexpect? T ommy Ahlquist, of Meridian, COO for Gardner Co., didn’t givemany de- tails: “Should be abig deal. W e are excited.” GARDNER SET TO KICK OFF NEWEST PROJECT UNDERGROUND TRANSIT HUB GROUNDBREAKING IS JULY 1 CLEAN ENERGY One man’s inv ent ions br ing high hopes NATION/WORLD, A5 ECONOMY CEO p a yr i s e s fo r 4 t h str a igh ty ea r BUSINESS, B1 CATCH IT WHILE YOU CAN COPPER RIVER SALMON 6 RECIPES TO ENJOY THE HEART -HEALTHY FISH, INCLUDING PERUVIAN CEVICHE, SALMON CAKES AND MAPLE-BOURBON GLAZED SALMON FILLET LIFE, L1, L6 T he I d a ho f a mil y f a r m end ur e s — fo r no w BY AUDREY DUTTON adutton@idahostatesman. com © 2014 Idaho Statesman Three generations of f armers will spend this summerworking the 400 acres of soil known as Sunny View Farms, on the outer edge of Caldwell. The Freeman famil y grows everything from sugar beets and onionsto wheat and seedsthat other farmers rel y on togrowtheir own crops. Sid Freeman, 53,isthe owner . His septuagenarianf ather , Loren, is “re- tired,”which reall y just means he works less, Sid Freeman says. The youngest Sunny View farmer is21-year- old W es Freeman, a stu- dent at Boise State Uni- versity who expects to take overthe business someda y . He hopest o share the f arm with his older brother , J ustin, who works in agribusiness up north. They come from a long line of f armers — seven generations now . “Each generation (before Sid Freeman) has stood on its own, nothing passed on to the next,” Sid Freeman said. He bought his The c osts of oper at ion c ombined wi t h gener at ional s hif ts ar e dr i ving c ons olidat ion DARIN OSWALD / doswald@idahostatesman.com Wes F r eeman helps get i rrigat ion wat er flowing at a f r eshl y pl ant ed pint o-bean field west of Caldwell on F riday. Hi s f at her , Sid F r eeman, ownsthe f arm t hat he acqui r ed f r om hi s f at her , L or en F r eeman. C onf r on t ing e a r l y -on s e t A l z heime r’s BY ANNA WEBB awebb@idahostatesman. com © 2014 Idaho Statesman LisaDeDapper has held a range of leader- ship positions at I daho nonprofits, but she’s taking a public leadership role nowthatshe hadn’t expected orwanted. At age 57 , she’s been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and is helping raise awareness about the sixth-leading cause of death in the U. S. DeDapper speaks about Alzheimer’s from a valuable perspecti ve, because she is young and otherwise healthy . Most people are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at a much older age, when other compromising health issues can be in play . “I’ m helping the Alzheimer’s Association have a face that can get out there in public, that people can see,”said DeDapper , who spoke last week atthe Greater I daho Chap- ter of the Alzheimer’s Association breakf ast in Boise. She agreed to share her story with the Statesman. Boi sean wants t o ‘ pl ug away’ at st aving off t he di sease’s worst effects. E x e r c i s e ca n p ut s p r ing in elde r l y st ep s BY GRETCHEN REYNOLDS NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE Regular exercise, including walking, sig- nificantl yreducesthe chance that a frail old- er person will become physicall y disabled, according to one of the largest and longest- running studies of its kind todate. The results of the study , one of the largest and longest running of its kind todate, was published T uesday in the journal JAMA, I t reinforced the necessity of frequent physical acti vity for our aging parents, grandparents and, of course, oursel ves. While everyone knows that exerciseis a good idea, whateveryour age, the hard, sci- entific evidence about its benefits in the old and infirmhas been surprisingl y limited. A ne w studysho ws older people can help war d off di sabili t ieswi t h r egul ar workouts, incl uding walking. See EXERCISE, A8 See FAMILY FARMS, A8 BY ZACH KYLE zkyle@idahostatesman. com © 2014 Idaho Statesman The late, great Boise Cascade Corp. traces its originst o the celebrat ed 1913 merger of Bar- ber Lumber Co. and Pa yett e Lumber and Man- ufacturing Co. The rise of Boise as a lumber- and-paper-products centertook abig step in 1957 , when the Boise Payette Lumber Co. merged with Cascade Lumber Co. of Yakima, Wash., to form Boise Cascade Corp. Boise Cascade grew into a national power- house for paper and wood products, raking in more than $4 billion in revenues and employ- ing nearl y 20, 000 people in 1991. But it fell on hard times. Boise Cascade Corp.’s reign as a publiccompany ended in 2004. A series of sales and transactions over the next nine years led to the sale of its timber- lands and morphed its paper-and-packaging 191 3 : S eed s of a t im b e r gi a n t pl a n t ed TOP 5 0 STORIES f r om 150y ears of t he I daho St at esman T o celebr at e 150years of pr oducing t hi s newspaper , we ar e r e-print ing one of our T op 50 st ories eachday thr ough Jul y 6. Then you can vot e foryour T op 10 st ories, whi ch will appear in our commemor ati ve spe- ci al sect ion on Jul y 26. ABOUT THIS SERIES See BOISE CASCADE, A8 REGISTER FOR THE LONGEST DAY FUNDRAISER I dahoSt at esman. c om F ind out mor e about Al zheimer’s and t he I daho chapt er of t he associ at ion. QUICK FACTS ABOUT THE DISEASE BACK PAGE See ALZHEIMER’S, BACK PAGE 52.8 57.6 56.5 54.1 THE TRENDS See charts on f armers’ ages, who owns f arms. 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Mid-sized family farms are becoming less common in Idaho. The costs of operation combined with generational shifts are driving a trend of consolidation in agriculture.
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IDAHOSTATESMAN:AMcClatchyNewspaper, 1200N.CurtisRoad,Boise, ID•P.O.Box40,Boise, ID83707• (208)377-6200•©2014 IdahoStatesman,Vol. 149,No. 307, 5sections,34pages
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Whatkindof project is this? It’s acenter for busesoperatedbyValleyRegionalTransit, theTreasureVal-ley’spublic transportation authority.It’s under the areaofTheGrovePlaza.The hub isone componentofCityCenterPlaza, a two-building, $70million project thatwill include retail,office, convention andparking space.Who’sdoing thisproject?TheGardnerCo., the SaltLakeCity-baseddeveloper that built 8th&Main.Whoelse is involved inCityCenterPlaza?Tech firmClearwaterAnalyt-ics ispartneringwithGardneron the
ClearwaterBuilding, a206,000-square-foot retail andofficebuildingjustwestof theU.S.Bank tower.TheGreaterBoiseAuditoriumDistrictwillpay forconstructionof aballroom,kitchen andother space in abuildingjust southof the tower.Boise’s urbanrenewal agency isputtingup someofthemoney for the transitcenter.What kind of groundbreakingceremony canwe expect?TommyAhlquist, ofMeridian,COO forGardnerCo., didn’t givemany de-tails: “Should be a big deal.We areexcited.”
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The Idaho family farmendures—fornow
BYAUDREY [email protected]
© 2014 Idaho StatesmanThree generationsof farmerswill
spend this summerworking the 400acres of soil known as Sunny ViewFarms, on the outer edge ofCaldwell. The Freeman familygrows everything from sugar beetsand onions towheat and seeds thatother farmers rely on to grow theirown crops.
Sid Freeman, 53, is the owner.Hisseptuagenarian father, Loren, is “re-
tired,” which really justmeans he works less,SidFreeman says.
The youngest SunnyView farmer is 21-year-oldWes Freeman, a stu-dent at Boise StateUni-versity who expects totake over the business
someday.Hehopes to share the farmwith his older brother, Justin, whoworks in agribusiness upnorth.
They come from a long line offarmers— seven generationsnow.
“Each generation (before SidFreeman) has stood on its own,nothing passed on to the next,” SidFreeman said. He bought his
The costs of operationcombinedwith
generational shifts aredriving consolidation
DARINOSWALD/ [email protected] irrigationwater flowingata freshlyplantedpinto-beanfieldwestofCaldwellonFriday.His father,SidFreeman,ownsthefarm thatheacquiredfromhis father,LorenFreeman.
Confrontingearly-onsetAlzheimer’s
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LisaDeDapperhashelda rangeof leader-ship positions at Idaho nonprofits, but she’staking a public leadership role now that shehadn’t expected orwanted.
At age 57, she’s been diagnosed withAlzheimer’s disease and is helping raiseawareness about the sixth-leading cause ofdeath in theU.S.
DeDapper speaks about Alzheimer’sfrom a valuable perspective, because she isyoung and otherwise healthy. Most peopleare diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at a mucholder age,whenother compromising healthissues canbe in play.
“I’mhelping theAlzheimer’sAssociationhave a face that can get out there in public,that people can see,” said DeDapper, whospoke last week at theGreater IdahoChap-terof theAlzheimer’sAssociationbreakfastin Boise. She agreed to share her story withthe Statesman.
Boiseanwants to ‘plug away’ atstaving off thedisease’sworst effects.
Exercise canput spring inelderly steps
BYGRETCHENREYNOLDSNEWYORK TIMESNEWS SERVICE
Regular exercise, includingwalking, sig-nificantlyreduces thechance thata frail old-er person will become physically disabled,according to one of the largest and longest-running studiesof its kind todate.
The resultsof the study, oneof the largestand longest running of its kind to date,waspublished Tuesday in the journal JAMA, Itreinforced the necessity of frequentphysical activity for our aging parents,grandparents and, of course, ourselves.
While everyone knows that exercise is agood idea,whatever your age, the hard, sci-entific evidence about itsbenefits in the oldand infirmhasbeen surprisingly limited.
Anewstudy showsolderpeople canhelpwardoff disabilitieswith regularworkouts, includingwalking.
See EXERCISE,A8
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The late, great Boise Cascade Corp. tracesitsorigins to thecelebrated 1913mergerofBar-berLumberCo.andPayetteLumberandMan-ufacturing Co. The rise of Boise as a lumber-and-paper-products center took a big step in1957, when the Boise Payette Lumber Co.mergedwithCascade LumberCo. ofYakima,Wash., to formBoiseCascadeCorp.
BoiseCascade grew into a national power-house for paper andwood products, raking inmore than $4 billion in revenues and employ-ing nearly 20,000people in 1991.
But it fell on hard times. Boise CascadeCorp.’s reign as a public company ended in2004. A series of sales and transactions overthenextnineyears led to the sale of its timber-lands and morphed its paper-and-packaging
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parents’ farm and will passeverything on to his sons,andhe isproud “tobeable tochange that and forge the fu-ture— andwe knowthat fu-ture is in agriculture.”
CHANGING LANDSCAPEMidsize family farms
such as Sunny View are be-coming less common.
According to the latestU.S.Department ofAgricul-ture census, the family- orfarmer-owned operation isstill king in Idaho,makingup83.5 percent of all farms inthe state. But that’s downfrom a peak of 88.1 percent10 years earlier and the low-est since at least 1997.
“The trend has been thatyou’ve got larger operationsthataregrowing, smallerop-erations that are growing ...and themiddle-sizeones arethe ones that are disappear-ing,” saidNeilRimbey,Cald-well rangeeconomist for theUniversity of Idaho Exten-sion.
Meanwhile, corporate-owned farms are makinggains.Theywere 7.2 percentof all Idaho farms in 2012, upfrom a low of 4.9 percent 10years earlier and the highestshare since at least 1997.
Rimbey cautions that“corporate-owned” isn’tsynonymous with “large”and that some corporationsare family businesses. “Itisn’t a move to corporateagriculture,” he said. “Thereare still operations that arefamily farms or ranches thatyou would categorize as bigoperations.”
Sid Freeman notes thatsome family farms may be-come corporations becauseof liability. “One mishapcould endup costing you lit-erally the farm,” he said, andthe Freemans are looking atincorporating for that rea-son.
THE VANISHING MIDDLELarger farms have
economiesof scale toweath-er volatility and rising costs,while small farms are bol-stered by the popularity offarmersmarkets and hobby-esque farming, economistssaid.
“I thinkwe’re going to seegreater incomesoff of small-er-size farms” because ofthe trend toward local, sus-tainable food production,SidFreeman said.
The farms in between?They’re caught in somestrong winds. Baby boomerfarmers are getting older,and their children aren’t aseager to take over the farms,economists said.Thedollarsthat farmers and ranchersspend on their crops or live-
stockhasmore thandoubledin thepast 15years.All of thisbreeds temptation to sell toaneighbor or well-fundedcompetitor.
“We’re seeing some ur-banization of farm ground,too,” said C. Wilson Gray,TwinFallsdistrict extensioneconomist for theUniversityof Idaho. “Farm ground be-ing converted to subdivi-sions (is) kind of a slow-moving factor in reducingthe amountof farmground.”
The average farm in 2012spanned 474 acres, 20 acreslarger than in the previouscensus in 2007, though just afew acres larger than in 1997and 2002.
John Thompson, publicrelations director for theIdaho Farm Bureau, said thefederal estate tax — some-thing the bureau has longpushed to be repealed — isenough to keep someyounger generations fromtaking over their parents’farm.
“Your family alreadyowns the farm, andyou can’tturn it over (to children)without paying the govern-ment a big pile of money,”Thompson said.
Rimbey said ranchersface similar challenges.“Their kids don’t want tocome back (after college)andhaveanything todowithit,because they’ve seen theirparents squabblingwith fed-eral and state agencies overgrazing,”he said.
Having to pay money tokeep the business— and thelifestyle of being a farmowner—is toodiscouragingfor some,Thompson said.
“Kids don’t want to workthat hard for a little amountofmoney,” he said.
Idaho’s 24,816 farms hadnet cash income of $2.7 bil-lion in 2012, about $109,000each, according to the US-DA. The median hourly payfor an agricultural manageris $26.38, according to the
IdahoDepartmentofLabor.And it’s not a trend that’s
easy to reverse.“For a young guy or gal to
get into farming, there’s ahuge investment up front,”Thompson said. “A lotof thecrops we raise in Idaho —potatoes and sugar beets inparticular — takespecialized equipment” at ahigh price.
That’s partly why SidFreeman’s parents were“overwhelmed” when theylearned his children hadshown an interest in some-day owning their home andthe “homeplace” farm.
“They were very, veryhappy about that,” Sid Free-man said. So happy, in fact,that they made their son a“very good deal” on theirproperty. (He previouslyrented farmland from them.)
WISDOM PASSED DOWNWes Freeman knows it
will be years, maybedecades, before he takesover.He is preparing byma-joring in business whilespending his summers onthe tractor.
His peers often questionhis career choice. His re-sponse?Toaskwhether theylike themeals they eat.
“My earliest memoriesare setting water (siphontubes for irrigation) withmom anddadwhen Iwas 5,”he said.As he and his broth-er took part in 4-H and Fu-tureFarmersofAmericaanddid chores on the farm, theylearned from their parentsandhired farmworkers.
“When it comes to end-of-the-yearbookwork, that’swhere I have a lot left tolearn,”WesFreeman said.
He adds that in Caldwell,smaller independent farmsare still thriving. It’seasier tosurvivewhen you can tradewith neighbors—hiring thefarmer next door to use hisnew tractor on your land, inexchange for his hiring you
to haul his spuds later in theyear.
Wes Freeman has heardthat farmingnearAdaCoun-ty and in parts of East Idahoismore competitive.
“Where we’re at, we’reblessed to have prettydecent neighbors. It’s not acutthroat deal,” he said.“The future is bright.”
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FAMILYFARMSCONTINUED FROMA1
1997 2002 2007 2012
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Farmers grow olderThe average age of Idahofarm operators has increasedby almost a decade since the1980s.
AVERAGE AGE
1997 2002 2007 2012
20,71621,30822,04121,669
Family farmsFamily– and individual-owned operations dominatethe market in Idaho, butthat’s changing slowly.
NUMBER OF FARMS
1997 2002 2007 2012
1,792
1,533
1,218
1,523
Corporate farmsThe number of corporate-owned farms is rising, thoughit remains small in compari-son to family-owned farms.
NUMBER OF FARMS
DARINOSWALD/ [email protected] sonWesFreeman, right, fixan irrigationlineataportionof landon their farmnearCaldwell onFriday.
“For the first time, wehave directly shown that ex-ercise can effectively lessenor prevent the developmentof physical disability in apopulationof extremelyvul-nerable elderly people,” saidDr. Marco Pahor, thedirector of the Institute onAging at the University ofFlorida,Gainesville, and thelead authorof the study.
Countlessepidemiologicalstudies have found a strongcorrelationbetweenphysicalactivity in advanced age anda longer, healthier life. Butsuch studies can’t prove thatexercise improvesolderpeo-ple’shealth, only thathealthyolderpeople exercise.
Other small-scale, ran-domized experiments havepersuasively established acausal linkbetweenexerciseand healthy aging. But thescope of these experimentshas generally been narrow,showing, for instance, thatolder people can improvetheir strength with weighttraining or their endurancecapacitywithwalking.
UNIQUE STUDYSo, for this latest study,
the Lifestyle Interventionsand Independence forElders trial, scientists ateight universities and re-search centers around thecountry began recruiting
volunteers in 2010, using anunusual set of selection cri-teria. Unlike in many exer-cise studies, which tend tobe filledwith people in rela-tively robust healthwho caneasilyexercise, the scientistsrecruited volunteers whowere sedentary and infirm,andon the cuspof frailty.
Ultimately, they recruited1,635 sedentary men andwomen ages 70 to 89 whoscored lower than a nine ona 12-point scale of physicalfunctioningoftenused to as-sess older people. Almosthalf scoredaneightor lower,but all were able to walk ontheir own for 400meters, ora quarter-mile, the re-searchers’ cutoff point forbeing physicallydisabled.
Then the men andwomen were randomly as-signed to either an exerciseor an education group.
Those in the educationassignment were asked tovisit the research centeronce amonth or so to learnabout nutrition, health careand other topics related toaging.
The exercise group re-ceived information aboutaging but also started a pro-gram of walking and light,lower-body weight trainingwith ankleweights, going tothe research center twice aweek for supervised groupwalks on a track, with thewalksgrowingprogressivelylonger.Theywerealsoaskedto complete three or four
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more exercise sessions athome, aiming for a total of150minutesofwalkingandabout three 10-minute ses-sions of weight-trainingexercises eachweek.
Every six months, re-searchers checked thephysical functioning of allof the volunteers, withparticular attention towhether they still couldwalk 400meters by them-selves.
DURATIONLENGTHYTheexperiment contin-
ued for an average of 2.6years, which is far longerthan most exercise stud-ies.
By the end of that time,the exercising volunteerswere about 18 percent lesslikely to have experiencedany episode of physicaldisability during the ex-periment. They were alsoabout28percent less likelytohavebecomepersistent-ly, possibly permanently,disabled, defined as beingunable to walk those 400meters.
Most of the volunteers“tolerated the exerciseprogram very well,” Pahorsaid, but the results didraise some flags.
More volunteers in theexercise group wound uphospitalized during thestudy than theparticipantsin the education group,possibly because theirvital signs were checkedfar more often, the re-searchers say.Theexerciseregimen may also have“unmasked” underlyingmedical conditions, Pahorsaid, although he does notfeel that the exercise itselfled tohospital stays.
business into Boise Inc.,which last year was boughtbyPackagingCorp.ofAmer-ica. A private-equity firmcreated Boise Cascade LLCto operate the old corpora-tion’s wood-products andbuilding-materialsdivisions,
then sold them back intopublic ownership last yearas Boise Cascade Co. Thenew company occupies partof the same Boise plazabuilding Downtown wherethe Boise Cascade empirewas run.
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from the Barber-Payettemerger, saying, “The lastdoubt was removed as to thefuture ofBoise as a center ofcommerce and industry.”
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