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FFA State President 2024-2025 is Windsor Leighty from McClave
What’s up Colorado FFA! I’m Windsor Leighty from the McClave FFA chapter in southeastern Colorado. I am honored to be serving as your 2024-2025 State President. I have grown up in the rural town of McClave where I was around production agriculture and developed a true passion for faith, family, and agriculture. As a little […]
Hemp seed meal approved as food source for laying hens – significantly improves egg quality
Hemp Seed Meal achieves monumental milestone through AAFCO and FDA-CVM. The Hemp Feed Coalition announces the approval of the Tentative Definition of Hemp Seed Meal for laying hens as a protein and fat source in the AAFCO Official publication. Hemp Feed Coalition (HFC) a 501 C-3 dedicated to obtaining federal approval for the use of […]
Greenhouse gas emissions from irrigation being studied
Pivot irrigation, like this operation near La Junta, Colo., helps farmers put a precise amount of water on a given crop. Area farmers draw water from the Arkansas River via a system of canal and ditches to irrigate their crops. (Mike Sweeney, Special to The Colorado Sun) Colorado State University researchers are counting greenhouse gases […]
Great Plains Fungi growing mushrooms and a thriving business
When most of us think of mushrooms, we picture those small blue plastic boxes in the grocery store that contain whole or sliced white or baby bella mushrooms, often not-s0-fresh looking. There is such a large world of mushrooms beyond that choice, it’s astounding. Their health benefits have been known for centuries and in recent […]
Colorado Acreage Report June 1, 2024
Colorado’s principal crop planted area, which includes acreage planted to all major crops and those expected to be cut for all hay, is down 2 percent from 2023 to 5.81 million acres, according to the June 1 Agricultural Survey conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. Producers in […]
Drought Outlook Forecasts New Drought Development This Summer
Drought coverage in the U.S. is around 5-year low, but the latest summer outlook shows a big change in trend is coming. The latest Seasonal Drought Outlook predicts expansion of drought through September in several regions of the U.S., according to the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center. Drought is favored to develop and persist […]
Much of Colorado could be pushed into drought by late summer thanks to hot, dry conditions
Engineer Pass Road weaves through the alpine tundra in the San Juan Mountains near Ouray. Photo by Hugh Carey, The Colorado Sun Colorado has seen an average water year so far, but looking ahead, climate experts say much of the state could fall into drought conditions and struggle to find relief. Colorado’s very average […]
State Veterinarian Issues Guidance for Dairy Cattle Exhibitions, Ag Events
Broomfield, Colo. — The Colorado State Veterinarian’s Office has issued new guidance to minimize influenza transmission at dairy cattle livestock exhibitions. Colorado is following the guidance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to encourage livestock owners and event organizers to increase biosecurity measures and actively monitor animals for signs of illness. Colorado had its first confirmed positive detection […]
49th Annual Wiley Hay Days June 28-29, 2024
Wiley Hays Days is returning this year, bigger and better than ever. Prudy Osborn and Sandy Coen are the chairpersons organizing the event. Aside from their husbands, who I’m told have been tirelessly performing every task asked of them, there are many others doing work behind the scenes to get the event rolling. I recently […]
National Corn Growers, others file lawsuit challenging EPA’s electrical vehicle mandate
The National Corn Growers Association, American Farm Bureau Federation and six auto dealers representing 16 brands and collectively operating dozens of dealerships in major markets across the country joined the American Petroleum Institute today in filing a lawsuit in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s light-duty and medium-duty vehicle emissions standards […]
Southeast Area CSU Extension Gardening info
SOUTHEAST AREA EXTENSION SAYS Contact: Michaela Mattes Email: michaela.mattes@colostate.edu Growing a Vegetable Garden As the weather warms, we want to go outside and enjoy nature. Many of us decide to grow a vegetable garden because of its many benefits. Growing your own vegetables teaches you about soil, plants, and the environment, and it is […]
Hungry goats are latest phenom-nom-nom in Colorado wildfire prevention
Donny Benz, left, and his fiancé Kaiti Singley, right, with Goat Green LLC, monitor their Cashmere goats as they graze in fields in Dutch Creek Open Space in Louisville, Colorado, on May 22, 2024. As the goats eat, they create natural firebreaks that help to prevent and slow down wildfires. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The […]
