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Colorado’s age-old water doctrine pushed to the brink by drought
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Editor’s Note: This story is a collaborative report by Fresh Water News working with nine other Colorado news outlets. In Evans, four miles south of Greeley, houses are shooting up. Once a quiet farm town, Evans is scrambling to come up with enough water to slake the thirst of hundreds of new homeowners, drawn here…
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Farm Bureau offers dollars to victims of Spring Creek Fire
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The state’s largest advocacy organization for farmers and ranchers is sending assistance to two south Colorado counties hard-hit by wildfires. The Colorado Farm Bureau Foundation said Thursday it’s donating $20,000 to go directly to individuals affected by the Spring Creek Fire, which has burned more than 108,000 acres in Huerfano and Costilla counties. That money…
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INSIGHTS: Trump sowing seeds of doubt in Colorado farm country
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If you want to make some noise, you stick the pig that squeals loudest. That’s what you need to know about the Chinese tariffs on 128 U.S. agricultural products and what it could mean for President Trump. Coloradans in the business of livestock and crops want Trump to be the dealmaker they elected him to…
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Farm Bureau: China’s threat of tariffs poses big risk for Colorado farmers
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DENVER – If China jacks up its tariffs on U.S. exports in retaliation to President Trump’s hikes on steel and aluminum, Colorado farmers, ranchers and consumers will pay a price, according to the Colorado Farm Bureau. China on Friday announced 128 U.S. products. Fresh and dried fruits, nuts and wine exports face a 15 percent…
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Colorado Farm Bureau meeting addresses accomplishments and perils
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The Colorado Farm Bureau, the Big Kahuna of the state’s agriculture interests, recognized Service to Ag winners at its annual meeting in the Denver Tech Center last week. Mel and Maureen Rettig, long-time Mesa County Farm Bureau members, and Phil Seng, CEO of the U.S. Meat Export Federation, were honored at a banquet with 300…
