2023 Inductees
Long-time leaders in Idaho’s agriculture industry have been selected to be inducted into the Class of 2023 Eastern Idaho Agriculture Hall of Fame during the annual recognition dinner March 17.
This year’s inductees are Val Schwendiman, Newdale; Christopher (Chris) Wride, American Falls; W. Brock Driscoll, Aberdeen; Sarah Henson Skaar, Hagerman, and Chester Adams, Firth.
Also being honored is Paige Nelson, Rigby, as the Duren Memorial Young Producer Award winner.
The recognition awards will be presented at the Shoshone-Bannock Hotel and Events Center, Fort Hall. A no-host social hour begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. The event is open to all interested persons.
The EIAHF was formed in 1972 to honor men and women who have made extraordinary contributions to agriculture and Eastern Idaho, a region that remains a significant center for agricultural production in the state of Idaho.
Click the images below to view each inductee’s biography.
2022 Inductees
2020 Inductees
2019 Inductees
2018 Inductees
2017 Inductees
2016 Inductees
* Deceased
2015 Inductees
2014 Inductees
* Deceased
2013 Inductees
* Deceased
2012 Inductees
* Deceased
2011 Inductees
Jim Skinner
Garth Fullmer*
Neil Miller
Gary Ingram
Gordon Gallup
2010 Inductees
Edith Stanger*
Clair E. Blaser*
H.J. “Jim” Christiansen
Louis Thiel
Evan Hayes
2009 Inductees
Robert Cecil Alldaffer*
Don C. Clark*
Jack F. Ellis
James K. Guthrie, Sr.
E. Bud Johnson*
2008 Inductees
Keith S. Cornelison
Cliff Hansen
Gordon L. Moir
Bruce Leytner Mulkey
Charles LeRoy Reed
2007 Inductees
Robert C. Geddes
Robert A. “Bob” Hoff
Jack W. McKinney*
Raymond G. Parks*
Darrell M. Wesenberg
2006 Inductees
Ken Andrus
Dan M. Hammond
Don Isham
Ezra C. Lakey*
DuWayne T. Skaar
2005 Inductees
Blaine Ramey
William “Bill” Schroeder
Boyd Schwieder
Karl William ”Bill” Snyder
Floyd James Whittaker
2004 Inductees
Kester “LaMar” Cockrell
J. Morgan Evans
Gale William Harding
Louis H. Merrill
Roger Whitnah*
2003 Inductees
Jerry Bush
Jim Hagenbarth
Charles Dean Shiner*
Elton Sorensen*
John P. Taberna
2002 Inductees
Harvey H. Field*
Dale Lee Breckenridge
Delbert F. Winterfeld
Max Eldon Rigby*
Robert R. Loucks
2001 Inductees
Don Burtenshaw
Dr. John D. Walker
George M. Hulme*
Farrell Thain Daniels*
Clyde S. Nelson
2000 Inductees
Donald E. “Don” Dixon
Gene Hussey*
Earl Wortley*
Dale D. Stukenholtz*
Blaine Larsen
1999 Inductees
Vincent R. Benson
Edward P. Duren*
David Nelson*
Kurt Kandler*
Robert J. Burtenshaw
1998 Inductees
George M. Crapo
Ralph J. Steele*
Lyle D. Taylor*
Gerald Johnson
James Rex Tolman*
1997 Inductees
Delmo Smith*
William “Bill” Brown*
Garth B. Thompson*
Frank H. Stoddard*
William T. Simmons*
1996 Inductees
Norris Fullmer*
Jack Hamilton*
John B. McNabb
Robert “Bob” Jahn*
Quinton Snook*
1995 Inductees
Eldred Lee*
L. Lynn Loosli*
Leland “Lee” Small*
Wallace W. Driscoll
Theodore “Ted” Roth*
1994 Inductees
Kenneth Anderson*
Sud Morishita*
Franklin J. Powers*
Ray W. Rigby
Walter V. Speelmon*
1993 Inductees
Golden C. Linford*
Mildred Staley*
Merle G. Kunz*
John B. Gellings*
George D. Whitworth*
1992 Inductees
Joseph R. Torgesen*
Will Ingram
Ken W. Huskinson*
Victor Johnson*
Warren J. Walters
1991 Inductees
W. Dale Rockwood
Leslie Pratt
Clyde A. Burtenshaw*
Marvin K. Goddard*
T. Ross Clement*
1990 Inductees
Rex L. Furness*
Ronald J. Ball*
Vearl C. Crystal*
Don M. O’Neal*
Dell H. Raybould
1989 Inductees
Howard G. Kelly*
George L. Lovell*
Mark G. Ricks*
Quentin C. Murdock
Horton J. Kienlen*
1988 Inductees
Joe F. Allen*
Earl Hunter*
Arvil Millar*
Ray Skinner*
George E. Stolworthy*
1987 Inductees
Charles S. Reed*
Bill Clark*
Preston Atchley*
Wilbur R. Krein*
Clyde McAffee*
1986 Inductees
J. Marsden Williams*
Maurice Evan Crapo*
Joe Hartwell*
Lloyd Mickelsen*
Frank H. Jacobs*
1985 Inductees
Artell Suitter*
Peter Ricks, Jr.*
Albert Daw*
Floyd Whittaker*
Roy Corbett*
1984 Inductees
James Siddoway*
Allan F. Larsen*
Thomas Chivers*
Arvel Fielding*
James “Cy” Young*
1983 Inductees
Gale W. Clement*
O. W. Robison*
Charles G. Thomason*
Arvey Weeks*
Walter C. Sparks
1982 Inductees
Robert Adams*
Vernon E. Bitter*
Dexter David*
Elmer Funk, Sr.*
Sterling Magleby*
1981 Inductees
O. I. Blain*
Chester Hansen*
James Kunz*
Albert Laird*
Roy Stroschein*
1980 Inductees
George D. Hansen*
Emlen G. Mays*
Ernest H. Petersen*
William H. Shuldberg*
Louis Skaar*
1979 Inductees
Jim Breckenridge*
W. J. “Jack” O’Bryant*
W. P. Hobbs*
Wayne Tibbets*
Ray H. Wood*
1978 Inductees
L. N. “Mick” Gwartney*
Claude G. Johnson*
Berkeley Larsen*
Harold Peterson*
Harold Smith*
1977 Inductees
Russell D. Holm*
Phyllis Laird*
H. J. Scheid*
Jack Wursten*
Armin Schroeder*
1976 Inductees
James Ellsworth*
Rulon H. Jones*
Jack Moir*
Arthur W. Schwieder*
Clifford N. Scoresby*
1975 Inductees
Louis B. Bitton*
Carlyle Chaffin*
John Earl Garner*
S. Albert Johnson*
R. K. “Bill” Siddoway*
1974 Inductees
Richard Egbert*
Vard Meadows
Sam P. McKinney*
John T. Poole*
J. Wendell Stucki*
1973 Inductees
John R. Burtenshaw*
Tom Weeks*
Preston Ellsworth*
Paul C. Holm*
Leo Murdock*
* Deceased