Author: Rachel Gabel

Rachel Gabel Offal is really quite fantastic for fashionistas, foodies, consumers and cattle producers. About 56% of the weight of a steer slaughtered in the U.S. is comprised of cuts with which retail consumers are familiar. Roasts, steaks and ground are the most recognizable cuts in the grocery meat case that most consumers know how…

Rachel Gabel My guess is by the time this column runs, wolves from British Columbia will be on the landscape in Colorado. Eric O’Dell was conspicuously absent at the Jan. 8 Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting, attending virtually. CPW Director Jeff Davis, in a press conference following the vote rejecting the petition of 26…

Rachel Gabel The show now known as the National Western Stock Show began in a tent in the stock yards with the purpose of influencing and equipping livestock producers in the region to improve the breeding and feeding of livestock. It was — and is — one of the factors that made Denver a Cowtown, built by…

Rachel Gabel Any claims the exorbitant price of commercially sold eggs in Colorado — if they are available in your grocery store — is due to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) rather than extremist-driven legislation is false. Colorado was hit hard by HPAI at a time when egg producers were already scrambling, if you will, to meet…

Rachel Gabel I’ve written a fair amount about public lands in the U.S. I don’t live in the part of Colorado where most of the 8.3 million acres of Bureau of Land Management-run public lands exist but as an ag writer, I’m keenly aware of their importance to multiple users. In recent months, I’ve written…

Rachel Gabel Colorado State University opened the doors of its first experiment station since 1996. More than 100 guests were in attendance at CSU Spur for a presentation and tour of the Metropolitan Agricultural Research Center, or MARC. Land grant universities are tasked with looking far ahead and solving agricultural challenges, and that is what…

Rachel Gabel Gov. Jared Polis’ disdain for the state’s ranchers was on full display last week at a meeting of Colorado Counties, Inc., where he placed the blame for the $5 million wolf restoration tab on ranchers. Colorado Counties, Inc., is comprised of county commissioners from 63 of 64 counties, Denver being the exception. Gov.…

Rachel Gabel A Larimer County man drove a side-by-side utility vehicle around his rural neighborhood last April, chasing and shooting cattle that belong to two different neighbors. He shot across roads and reportedly sped recklessly around homes while shooting. When the dust settled, Larimer County Sheriff’s Deputies and two brand inspectors found seven dead cattle…

Rachel Gabel I held my seventh book in my grubby little hands last week. Writing the story of Dr. John Matsushima has been the honor of my career. It will be thrilling to see some of the 50,000 students participating in the Colorado Agriculture in the Classroom program hearing the story of an agriculture industry…

Rachel Gabel Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissioner Jessica Beaulieu told the Commission she read the public comments submitted prior to last Thursday’s meeting and wanted to clarify she and Commissioner Jack Murphy did not communicate about writing the op-ed that appeared in papers across the state in support of a measure to ban mountain lion…