This year’s wheat harvest season has been particularly difficult. And many farmers are saying it’s hard to stay profitable.
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High wheat prices don’t mean Colorado farmers are getting rich. Most are worried about just getting a crop.
Drought, insects, high input costs and a lack of grain mean that farmers can’t take advantage of high wheat prices.
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Farmers hit with most disruptive price hikes, supply shortages in decades as pandemic slowdowns catch up to Colorado
From being nestled under soil, piled into trucks, sent down conveyor belts and driven on to Walmart, Kroger and Aldi stores, the potatoes from Reid Mattive’s San Luis Valley farm have never been more expensive to grow. Tires and machinery are hard to locate. The prices for fertilizer, fuel and fungicides are spiking. Mattive, a […]
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Female farmers are fueling agriculture’s resurgence in the Roaring Fork Valley near Aspen
By Scott Condon, The Aspen Times Working the Aspen farmers’ market booth last summer for Rock Bottom Ranch, agriculture manager Alyssa Barsanti was chatting with a customer who couldn’t believe she was one of the farmers responsible for growing the vegetables he was about to buy. “He asked to see my hands,” Barsanti recently recalled […]