Coloradans for Animal Care expands coalition, petitions State Supreme Court for review of Initiative 16
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Coloradans for Animal Care, today, April 16, announced the addition of four new members to the coalition. The Colorado Egg Producers, Colorado Horse Council, Livestock Marketing Association and the Rocky Mountain Farmers…
30×30 plan cannot be ignored
Race riots, mass shootings, sex trafficking, overcrowding at the southern border, homelessness, hunger, a deadly pandemic, children not being educated in many states, drought conditions in most of the western half of the U.S., not…
Biden nominates Bonnie for USDA undersecretary post
President Biden has nominated Robert Bonnie to be Agriculture Department undersecretary for farm production and conservation, the White House announced on April 16.
Ballot initiative process: A primer
Direct democracy came to Colorado with the first ballot initiative that went before voters in 1880, an amendment regarding Uniform Taxes. It read: To Submit to the Qualified Electors of the State of Colorado an…
House GOP announces 5 ag climate bills
House Agriculture Committee ranking member Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., announced a package of five bills to address climate change that he described in a news release as “natural solutions.”
Rep. Bacon meets with constituents in Nebraska
PURDUM, Neb. — March 29 to April 9 saw members of Congress take a hiatus from Washington, D.C., and travel to their home states to meet and greet their constituents.
Drought continues to spread
For the contiguous 48 states, the U.S. Drought Monitor showed 45.49 percent of the area in moderate drought or worse, compared with 45.05 percent a week earlier.
Upper Loup misstep prompts a letter and a new system
The Upper Loup Natural Resources District in Thedford, Neb., caught the attention of cattle producers last week. The taxpayer funded district ran an Earth Day feature in their newsletter that urged people to commit to…
Vilsack: USDA will end food box program but distribute produce, dairy products
In a three-hour, wide-ranging hearing, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee today that USDA will end the Farmers to Families Food Box Program established by the Trump administration but will continue…
Nothin’ But Try Jackpot growing
COLEMAN, Okla. — What started as an event to remember steer wrestler Levi Wisness has now grown to honor two more people and be a full-blown day of fun activities. The 2021 festivities will be…