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How the closure of two Vail restaurants shows coronavirus’ domino effect on the food-service economy
Hundreds of workers and business owners in the Eagle Valley felt the pinch when Matt Morgan was forced to close Sweet Basil and Mountain Standard in Vail Village.
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Even if you make more than minimum wage, this updated Colorado rule could affect you
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Colorado farmers hopeful as revised free-trade deal with Mexico and Canada approved
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How Colorado’s rural and urban food communities are coming together
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Colorado’s economy is predicted to keep growing in 2020, but slower. Here’s what this means.
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Feed the world in 2050? National Western-based consortium tackles food, workforce challenges
Big Ag, nonprofits and CSU incubate ideas to expand production and imagine jobs that don’t yet exist
More Colorado workers will get breaks, must make $42,500 salary to be exempt from overtime under draft policy
The proposal represents a major win for Colorado labor groups, who have long been pushing for the changes -- although they didn’t get everything they wanted.
Greeley still shuns marijuana, but it’s starting to embrace hemp as a new cash crop
The growing popularity of CBD and recognition in the federal Farm Bill are prompting marijuana opponents to take a second look at its non-psychoactive cousin
Why Colorado’s corn farmers are getting hurt by China’s soybean tariff
Colorado’s not a big soybean state but indirect impact of trade wars has hit agriculture exports, which are down 15% this year
Colorado farmers can’t get their food to the table. One startup wants to lend hands.
Lack of labor, broken contracts with suppliers are why some farmers leave the majority of what they grow in the field, contributing greenhouse gases to the atmosphere
Where does our poop end up? Probably spread on farmland in eastern Colorado
Some may poo-poo the business of selling treated, dried human feces to fertilize crops, but solid research backs the practice.
