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A fat snowpack: Farmers should have water through October

Year after drought, outlook goes from bust to boom

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Agriculture

Farmers worry bailout for Trump trade dispute won’t be enough

Chinese tariffs on agricultural products hit home

DATE: Sep 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hay shortage in Southwest Colorado could hit ranchers hard

Drought presents tough challenges for livestock owners

DATE: Jun 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Agriculture

A unique, historic orchard returns to life at Old Fort Lewis

Century-old trees contain apple varieties once thought extinct

DATE: May 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Five charged in deaths of 2 girls near Norwood

NORWOOD, Colo. — Five people have been charged with fatal child abuse in the deaths of two young girls whose bodies were found on a Colorado farm. At a Tuesday court hearing in S...

DATE: Sep 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Farmers find relief in passage of hemp-water bill

‘It was time to end the uncertainty and ambiguity’

DATE: May 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hickenlooper signs hemp bill into law in Cortez

Law supports growers who rely on water stored in federal reservoirs

DATE: May 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bayfield couple’s ‘weeds’ turn into growing hops business

Company supplies several breweries throughout the area

DATE: Sep 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Agriculture

County commissioners struggle to control noxious weeds

Seeds spreading through irrigation canals

DATE: Jul 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Tax credit seeks to help young farmers

Landowners would be protected from risk

DATE: Jun 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Agriculture

High winds blow down half of barn in Cortez

DATE: Apr 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

‘Cover crops make sense,’ CSU researcher says

Researchers at the Southwestern Colorado Research Center in Yellow Jacket are analyzing baseline data after the first growing season of three-year study on cover crops. The Yellow...

DATE: Mar 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Agriculture