Spencer is a freelance writer from Wiggins, Colo., where she and her family raise cattle and show goats.
The Colorado Cattlemen’s Association hosted a panel of gubernatorial candidates on June 24 at their annual meeting. Republicans Rep. Scott Bottoms and Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer attended as well as Democrat Attorney General Phil Weiser. CCA...
The Colorado Cattlemen’s Association annual meeting in Loveland has wrapped up. There was no shortage of topics to discuss over the three-day meeting, but drought, cattle prices and screwworm were certainly among the most talked...
Rep. Manny Rutinel has busted out a cowboy hat for campaign photos and has thrown it into the ring to represent Colorado’s 8th Congressional District in D.C. He is endorsed by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, a New Jersey democrat...
Rep. Manny Rutinel has busted out a cowboy hat for campaign photos and has thrown it into the ring to represent Colorado’s 8th Congressional District in D.C. He is endorsed by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker,...
Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, a cooking celebrity who is married to a cattle rancher in Pawhuska, Okla., reported this week that her son in law has contracted alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) from a tick bite....
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis made three new appointments to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission and reappointed both Richard Reading, at-large representative, and vice chair Gabriel Otero, sportsperson’s representative who resides west of the Continental...
The federal 10(j) rule, which Colorado has in place, allows ranchers and livestock owners to shoot and kill wolves caught in the act of attacking livestock, working dogs, or to protect human life and that...
Ranchers in the panhandle of Texas and eastern N.M. had plentiful rains last year which resulted in more grass than usual. Now, as much of the country is experiencing a dry winter and spring, the...
Producers in the West are certainly familiar with foot rot, but producers and consumers alike benefit from preventing fruit rot, specifically afflicting Florida-grown strawberries, a $500 million a year industry that is enjoyed from coast...
The Public Lands Rule has been rescinded. The rule, first proposed in 2023, would have complicated the balanced partnership between federal agencies and all multiple uses on those public lands. In 2024, the Bureau of...