When China added a 25% tax on soybeans in retaliation to U.S. tariffs last year, Colorado’s farming community shrugged it off. Soybeans aren’t much of a crop here. But nationwide, large patches of Midwestern soybean farmland switched to corn. That, in turn, meant more corn would stay in the U.S., driving down prices for Yuma […]
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Colorado farmers can’t get their food to the table. One startup wants to lend hands.
Last summer was a bad one for Michael Moss. A June hailstorm laid waste to his Kilt Farm southwest of Longmont, setting him back $60,000 in peppers and early-season produce — an amount just shy of the vegetable farm’s entire yearly revenue. But his problems didn’t end with the weather. After scrambling to start the […]
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Opinion: Federal marijuana legalization may not be the dream scenario some imagine
With the departure of Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General and the president signing the Farm Bill into law last week, the future of the federal approach to state legal marijuana will re-emerge as an issue. Attorney General Sessions was the most vocal anti-marijuana member of the Trump Administration and the most significant reason […]
Posted inBusiness, Environment, News, Outdoors
Where does our poop end up? Probably spread on farmland in eastern Colorado
This story starts with a flush, not here in Colorado, but all the way across the country — in New York City sometime in early 1992: The flush that changed history. Picture it — well, OK, don’t exactly picture it. But imagine the network of subterranean sewer pipes through which the flush travels to reach […]