Tag: agriculture
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Colorado River near Grand Junction infested with zebra mussels, state officials report
Colorado now has five bodies of water, including a stretch of the Colorado River from east of Grand Junction to the Utah border, that are showing zebra mussel infestations. The state has battled the invasive species successfully for years. In 2021, the state celebrated three years of negative testing for zebra and quagga mussels and…
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The latest effort to rewild southeastern Colorado | Rachel Gabel
The war on private property rights is one that battle tested ranchers in southeastern Colorado know all too well. Now, in a 1,500-page U.S. Forest Service draft assessment that seeks to inform the management of the Comanche National Grasslands in Baca, Las Animas, and Otero Counties, ranching and private property ownership are listed among the…
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EDITORIAL: An ag dividend for all of Colorado
Colorado is about to reap a hefty reward from ongoing efforts by the Trump administration to decentralize the federal bureaucratic behemoth. The north Front Range and Fort Collins will be the most direct beneficiaries, but our whole state and region will gain. That’s the upshot of an analysis by Colorado’s Common Sense Institute into the…
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Amateur, pro chefs bring the heat at Chili and Salsa Showdown
By O’Dell Isaac odell.isaac@gazettedev.gazette.com More than 150 professional and home chefs brought the heat on Thursday as they competed for the right to call their chili or salsa the best in Colorado. The Chili and Salsa Showdown, held at the Pueblo Convention Center, was the kickoff event to the 31st annual Chile and Frijoles Festival.…
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Amateur, pro chefs bring the heat at Chili and Salsa Showdown
By O’Dell Isaac odell.isaac@gazettedev.gazette.com More than 150 professional and home chefs brought the heat on Thursday as they competed for the right to call their chili or salsa the best in Colorado. The Chili and Salsa Showdown, held at the Pueblo Convention Center, was the kickoff event to the 31st annual Chile and Frijoles Festival.…
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Gov. Jared Polis says Trump’s tariffs policy is disrupting Colorado’s exports, jobs
Kristi Burton-Brown: ‘If he wants to help businesses, he should stop increasing taxes on them and actually cut their taxes’
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Colorado Springs nonprofit works to improve standard of living in Asian and African countries
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A little-known Colorado Springs nonprofit that strives to build people instead of building roads and other infrastructure is having a big impact in improving the standard of living in developing nations in Asia and Africa. Resource Exchange International — REI — was launched in 1990 by three executives of another Colorado Springs nonprofit to train…
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Indian farmers strike to demand guaranteed crop prices as others attempt to march to New Delhi
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Farmers are blocking highways and holding demonstrations in many rural areas in northern India to protest over a range of grievances that have also led tens and thousands to march toward the capital
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Why tens of thousands of Indian farmers are protesting again
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Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are protesting for guaranteed crop prices, renewing a movement that succeeded in getting contentious new agricultural laws repealed in 2021
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Hard work and too many statistics: An EU farmer’s frustration grows with every click of the mouse
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Farmers have always lived by the whim of nature, but fickle regulation they find more difficult to accept