Ellerman builds successful ag businesses around key people
With the opportunities available in the world, one Colorado agricultural businessman said there is no better time to be a human or start a business. “My generation has lived in a fantasy world,” 25-year-old Brit...
Nebraska cowboy is bareback riding Rookie of the Year winner
MERRIMAN, Neb. – A Nebraska cowboy has won the 2019 PRCA Resistol Rookie of the Year award in the bareback riding. Garrett Shadbolt, Merriman, Neb., finished his rookie year in the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association...
Food Safety News issues warning about FDA, CDC
Food Safety News, the newsletter published by Bill Marler, the prominent Seattle-based food safety lawyer, will, for the next six weeks, attach a note to every story posted on the Food and Drug Administration saying...
Grassley to file EPA comments, doesn’t expect shutdown
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told rural reporters today that he will file comments with the Environmental Protection Agency to urge changes in the rule the agency has proposed to manage small refinery...
House organic ag hearing reveals regional and partisan differences
A House Agriculture Biotechnology, Horticulture and Research Subcommittee hearing last week revealed that the issues facing organic farmers in the U.S. states and territories vary dramatically from place to place, and that Democratic and Republican...
Search continues for Englebert, donations welcome
Friends and family of Chance Englebert continue to search for him. Englebert, 25, who grew up on a ranch near Burdock, S.D., had been living and working in the Gillette and Moorcroft, Wyo., area for...
Bob Norris of Colorado’s T-Cross Ranch is no ordinary cowboy
All over the state of Colorado, on ranches large and small, it is branding season. And that is certainly true on one of the largest and most well known ranches in Colorado, the T-Cross Ranch....
Secretary Perdue leads USDA trade mission to Mexico
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue will lead a trade mission to Mexico Nov. 6-8 to forge new opportunities with U.S. agriculture’s largest bilateral trading partner and second-largest export market. The secretary will be joined...
Top ag organizations form Coloradans Protecting Wildlife to oppose gray wolf ballot initiative
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Colorado Farm Bureau, Colorado Cattlemen’s Association, and Colorado Wool Growers’ Association announced the formation of Coloradans Protecting Wildlife, an issue committee against a proposed 2020 ballot measure that would require the introduction...
Microbial marauder of potato, tomato crops has an accomplice
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Descendants of the fungus-like pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s — Phytophthora infestans — may have had a “helping hand” in recent U.S. outbreaks of the costly...
Facebook enforces ban on selling animals, sending ripples through the ag community
Social media, specifically Facebook, has changed the way livestock producers promote events, sales and sell private treaty livestock. Though enacted in November, Facebook has begun to enforce their ban on selling animals, potentially changing how...
JBS USA responds to call by U.S. senators for investigation into meatpacking plant’s practices
An international meat-processing conglomerate whose U.S. subsidiary is based in Greeley, Colo., said it intends to cooperate with any probes resulting from a bipartisan request for a review to its transactions. Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.,...
Trapping today
Furs is one of the oldest forms of clothing known to man, and one of the building blocks of our nation, as the early explorers of this country were trappers. While not as common as...
Catahoula Leopard Dog: Not your average stock dog
“A Catta whatta?” That’s the most common response that owners of Catahoula Leopards get after answering the question, “What kind of dog is that?” The largest breed of stock dog, a Catahoula, typically weighs between...
Milk price highest in 5 years
U.S. dairy farmers are seeing more profit from their milk price. The Agriculture Department announced the August Federal order Class III benchmark price at $17.60 per hundredweight, up a nickel from July, $2.65 above August...
Bob Norris, Marlboro Man and Colorado Springs philanthropist, dies
Colorado Springs, Colo., has lost a true cowboy, philanthropist, Marlboro Man and elephant trainer. Bob Norris died at home Sunday, Nov. 3. He was 90. He’s survived by two daughters and two sons. His wife,...
House Ag Committee election 2020 forecast
Editor’s note: This article on the 2020 House elections is the first of two stories about congressional elections affecting rural America and agriculture. A second article on the Senate will be published Friday. One year...
Rocky Mountain Oysters are on Poudre High FFA’s menu
Poudre High School’s FFA chapter, led by advisers Sadie Nelson and Mackenzie Crooks, is in its fourth year and growing by leaps and bounds. Nelson has served in a leadership capacity overall for seven years,...
Livestock producers and feedlots are facing a trucker shortage
Labor shortages are complicating the daily activities in production agriculture in all segments, including livestock hauling. While finding truck drivers is difficult in this market, finding livestock-savvy drivers able to transport hogs and cattle is...
2020 Greeley Stampede concert announcement
Tired of the cold weather? Take your mind off the dropping temperature and start thinking of warmer times as the Greeley Stampede is ready to announce the concert lineup for the 2020 event. “We start...
