WATCH: Farmers get on tractors to demonstrate against water curtailment

IDAHO FALLS — Gov. Brad Little is in town to speak at Greater Idaho Falls Chamber luncheon about the water curtailment issue affecting farmers in eastern Idaho. Dozens of farmers rode into the meeting on their tractors and parked outside the Westbank Convention Center in Idaho Falls.

The Idaho Department of Water Resources issued a curtailment order that requires 6,400 junior groundwater rights holders who pump off the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer to shut off their water, and Little has expressed his support for the measure.

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We’ll post more information about the governor’s visit and the farmers’ reactions.