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Hickenlooper tells Weld farmers “take bad with the good” by Jack Minor— In the latest twist in the issue around Weld farmers requesting to pump groundwater to save their crops and help lower excessively high groundwater levels, a government official said farmers can pump all day long to keep groundwater out of their basementS, [...]
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State suspends senior water rights to fight fires, not save crops by Jack Minor – Not taking no for an answer Weld County Commissioners have sent a letter to the state Attorney General asking him to review a memo issued by his staff that resulted in Governor Hickenlooper saying he could not order local [...]
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by Jack Minor – Governor John Hickenlooper is expected to announce his decision today at 1 p.m. on whether to allow Weld County farmers to turn on wells and allow them to pump a miniscule amount of water from the Alluvium Aquifer in order to save their crops and avoid an economic disaster. [...]
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Asks Governor to order wells turned on by Jack Minor – The Weld County Commissioners today unanimously declared a disaster emergency for the county because of an historic drought and called on the governor to issue an order permitting area farmers to turn on wells that were ordered shut down by the courts [...]
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Story and Photo By Jack Minor At a recent forum on agriculture Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway had some sharp words for a Senate staffer asking her boss to lay off local community banks. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and staffers from both Sen. Michael Bennet’s office and Rep Betsy Markey’s office hosted a forum [...]
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TRI-COUNTY GROUP SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND FOOD SYSTEM IN NORTHERN COLORADOby Jim Frazier How would Colorado feed itself in an emergency? That is just one of the questions to be answered by “From Plant to Plate”, a research project funded by three northern Colorado counties: Weld, Larimer, and Boulder. Larimer County planning department is the lead [...]
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by Rev. Brad What would it look like if we let Christ build the church? Let me share with you what that might look like. Then maybe ask yourself who is building your church. Out on a stretch of highway sits an empty grain field. Some stubble is still in the field, there is a [...]
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by Jack Minor, for The Greeley Gazette Weld County’s predominate industry is agriculture. We produce a range of products, corn, onions, carrots, alfalfa, and sugar beets. We are also producers of a new kind of crop: organic foods. At its basic definition organic simply means the product is made with no pesticides or livestock is [...]
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