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A program that would fundamentally change incentives that promote constant production growth in the country's dairy industry got major attention Wednesday at the Colorado Farm Show in Greeley. more...
01/28/2010 6:54am
A program that would fundamentally change incentives that promote constant production growth in the country's dairy industry got major attention Wednesday at the Colorado Farm Show in Greeley.
  01/28/2010 6:54am
GREELEY — Preserving a viable agricultural industry is the key to helping rural development in northern Colorado, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet was told Monday morning.
  01/04/2010 8:40pm
LOVELAND — The world's farmers will need to double the amount of food they now produce to feed an expected worldwide population of 8 billion by 2025.
  12/11/2009 3:49pm
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's announcement this week that a higher ethanol-gasoline blend is suitable for all 2001 and newer model vehicles is good news, said Mark Sponsler, CEO of Greeley-based Colorado Corn.
  12/03/2009 8:43am
A recent United Nations report indicated that about 70 percent more food will be needed in the world by 2040 as the world's population expands. “How are we going to do that without water?” Pat O'Toole asked a crowd of more than 100 people...
  12/01/2009 8:27pm
WASHINGTON – Fort Collins will be the site of one of several workshops set next year by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
  11/16/2009 4:54pm
The Colorado Corn Growers Association, the Governor's Biofuels Coalition, Western Convenience Stores and Southern Colorado Clean Cities partnered in the opening of a new E85 station in Pueblo last week. It was the fifth station selling E85 in Pueblo.
  11/02/2009 10:54am
Sixteen grants totaling more than $625,000 have been awarded through the Colorado Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crops Program.
  10/21/2009 8:19am
Connect Colorado is collecting data needed to build maps of broadband service availability in rural areas of the state and three Colorado counties have been picked for a pilot study area for the Connect Colorado Project.
  10/12/2009 4:37pm
Colorado offices of the USDA's Farm Service Agency are accepting applications for benefits under the provisions of the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program and the Livestock Forage Disaster Program.
  10/14/2009 11:41am
The Colorado Department of Agriculture has grant funds available to help fight seven species of noxious weeds on Colorado's eastern plains.
  10/07/2009 11:54am
Like many farmers in Weld County, Les Hardesty is feeling the pressure from the recent collapse of the New Frontier Bank of Greeley, the state's largest agriculture lender.
  09/09/2009 6:40am
It's now more than a farm.
  08/28/2009 11:55am
The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union and American Farmland Trust will host Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and guests for a summit on agricultural opportunities in clean energy from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 2 at the Country Steak-Out in Fort Morgan.
  08/26/2009 11:51am
Federal cap-and-trade legislation dominated a two-hour agriculture round table in Greeley Tuesday afternoon hosted by two members of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee.
  08/19/2009 10:53am
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