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Posted inEnvironment
Why the ground under Colorado solar panels is ripe for growing food
A Republican lawmaker has joined the previously Democrat-only push for solar agriculture, or agrivoltaics, priming Colorado to become a national leader
Posted inBusiness
Unpaid wages, injuries: The dark side of a celebrated Colorado mushroom farm known for helping migrants
Dozens of interviews show hidden perils for immigrants working at Colorado Mushroom Farm, which sold produce at Whole Foods and King Soopers before going bankrupt.
Posted inOpinion Columns
Opinion: Will it be a solar farm? Or a farm farm?
Why not both? An agrivoltaics primer.
Posted inWater
Can a strain of wheatgrass with an odd name help Colorado farmers use less water?
Farmers and agricultural researchers across the state are testing the viability of a drought-tolerant perennial wheatgrass developed in Kansas called Kernza
Posted inBusiness
These Colorado programs are helping beginning farmers overcome huge challenges
The programs are especially critical given that farmers in the U.S. are aging faster than young farmers are getting in line to take their place. One-third of the 3.4 million American farmers are over the age of 65, according to latest Census of Agriculture.
Posted inWater
Farming, water and Wall Street on Colorado’s Western Slope
Agriculture producers in Colorado’s Grand Valley face difficult questions over the future of Colorado River water in the West
Posted inEnvironment, Health, News
Colorado has been spreading biosolids with “forever chemicals” on farms, records show. How dangerous is it?
Metro Denver’s wastewater treatment system is spreading sewage biosolids laced with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” at its farm in eastern Arapahoe County and on private farms that buy the material as fertilizer, according to test records obtained by the Colorado Sun. The likely presence of the ubiquitous and dangerous chemicals on Colorado farmland, placed there […]
Posted inBusiness, News
Barrels burn all night at Western Slope orchards as farmers try to save crop from spring freeze
OLATHE — It’s 10 minutes after 2 early Thursday morning and Kerry Mattics inspects a thermometer hanging on a deer fence that surrounds his family’s fruit orchard. Twenty-seven degrees. “It’s go time,” he says. “The bottom just fell out.” The mercury had dropped a full three degrees in just a few minutes, as a thin […]
Posted inBusiness
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.