Here’s what the state’s long-troubled technology system cost Jefferson County when it malfunctioned again last week: about one-third fewer applications for food assistance and other aid were processed compared with an average…
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Burping steers are helping researchers at Colorado State solve the climate crisis
FORT COLLINS — When it comes to cattle life, the 40 or so bovines that loaf around in pens at Colorado State University’s agriculture research center have it pretty good, says Sara…
Colorado food banks may soon run out of the federal funds they use to buy local produce
AURORA — On Wednesday evenings at the edge of a wide parking lot in Aurora, there is a forest green pop-up tent with five large, scraped-up coolers stacked nearby. The coolers hold…
What’s Working: As food-insecurity funds end, Colorado farmers focus on food hub, ag incubator
Note from this newsletter’s usual author: After meeting Roberto Meza at this 528-person dinner table, I connected him to my colleague Parker Yamasaki to dig into how his little farm in Bennett…
Food is money for Colorado farmers and ranchers. Here’s how the ag census report says they’re doing.
People claim Americans, including Coloradans, have no real idea where their food comes from or what goes into producing it. They probably know even less about the role agriculture plays in Colorado’s…
Pueblo’s new Fuel & Iron food hall accused in lawsuit of shorting its builders as construction lagged, costs soared
One of the coolest endeavors to open in Pueblo in recent years is tangled up in a court battle after being accused of not paying its builders for the full cost of…
Colorado considers allowing sales of raw milk in latest “food freedom” legislation
Coloradans could buy raw milk at farms, farmers markets and roadside stands — but not grocery stores — under legislation aimed at giving consumers the power to choose their own food. The…