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Posted inBusiness

Keeping hops alive: The Colorado farmers giving beer a local taste

by Gabe Toth 3:30 AM MDT on Sep 24, 20234:50 PM MDT on Sep 22, 2023

While the state isn’t known for growing hops, these farmers are infusing local ciders, beers and spirits with flavors from just down the road

Posted inFood and Restaurants

“I haven’t slept good all summer”: Farmers worry about delayed Pueblo chile crop after wild weather

by Sue McMillin 3:37 AM MDT on Sep 20, 20238:24 AM MDT on Sep 20, 2023

Avid chile fans will still be able to grab chiles at Pueblo’s annual festival. But folks in other parts of Colorado or out-of-state may not be so lucky.

Posted inEquity

For women farm owners in Colorado, the leading concerns are crops and animals, not sexism

by Mark Stevens 3:43 AM MDT on Aug 12, 202310:20 AM MDT on Aug 14, 2023

More women are finding training and support for dealing with pests, weather and how to purchase land to farm and ranch in Colorado

Posted inClimate

Hail storms, slim margins and regulations leave Colorado farmers with an uphill battle

by Tracy Ross 4:29 AM MDT on Aug 6, 20239:42 AM MDT on Aug 7, 2023

This year’s wheat harvest season has been particularly difficult. And many farmers are saying it’s hard to stay profitable.

Posted inEquity

Human-rights movement comes to Colorado with promise of more protections, rights for farmworkers

by Nancy Lofholm 3:45 AM MDT on Jul 4, 20238:25 AM MDT on Jul 4, 2023

Beginning this season, Rancho Durazno in Palisade is the first agricultural enterprise in Colorado to join the Fair Food Program, an innovative human-rights movement that began a dozen years ago in Florida’s vast tomato fields.

Posted inColoradans

After internment, Japanese Americans took to farming in rural Colorado. Now, their legacies are at risk of fading.

A person poses for a photo. by Ann Marie Awad 4:29 AM MDT on Jul 2, 20237:32 AM MDT on Jul 6, 2023

Japanese American farmers built multigenerational businesses in Colorado after WWII and decades later, economic hardships make it difficult for them to stay afloat.

Posted inWater

One Colorado river basin has been drying for years. It’s changing a way of life. 

by Michael Booth 4:29 AM MDT on May 21, 20238:19 AM MDT on May 21, 2023

Are the lessons from a $30 million effort to restore the parched Republican River a road map for other rivers, or a warning?

Posted inCartoons

Jim Morrissey: Fixing things on the Colorado farm

by Jim Morrissey 2:10 AM MDT on Apr 28, 20238:29 PM MDT on Apr 27, 2023

Cartoonist Jim Morrissey notes that the right to repair law may not sit too well with equipment manufacturers, but it promises to be a boon to farmers. Goats find it tasty, too!

A machine harvests grain in a field.
Posted inBusiness

Colorado, 10 other states consider “right to repair” for farming equipment

Associated Press logo by The Associated Press 1:28 PM MST on Feb 13, 20231:28 PM MST on Feb 13, 2023

Lawmakers introduced bills that would force manufacturers to provide the tools, software, parts and manuals needed for farmers to do their own repair

Posted inEnergy

How Coloradans can find home electrification rebates and save big   

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MST on Jan 26, 202312:51 PM MST on Jan 27, 2023

We sorted through new and tantalizing layers of federal, state, Xcel and local credits for buying clean heat pumps, water heaters and more

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