PUEBLO — Urban farmer Perdita Butler was ready to harvest her bok choy and fresh, crunchy kohlrabi outside her 1940s stucco home in Pueblo. It was early spring, and the nymph grasshoppers…
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Colorado expands testing for bird flu at dairy farms as state hits 30 cases in 30 days
The Colorado Department of Agriculture this week stepped up efforts to stop a runaway outbreak of bird flu cases on dairy farms by issuing an order requiring testing for the virus on…
How environmentalists are trying to force Colorado to get tough on factory farms
Colorado environmental groups one year ago won an administrative law judge’s ruling that state water quality regulators were failing to monitor potential contamination from mountains of manure at so-called “factory farms.” So…
Farms that feed migrating sandhill cranes in Colorado are in it for the long haul
Story first appeared in: Mike Schaefer and his family have spent a lifetime adoring the sandhill cranes that swoop into the San Luis Valley each spring and fall, crowding the sky and…