Items Tagged with 'Colorado'

The Congressional Budget Office is due to release its latest 10-year estimates for farm programs today. The new baseline isn’t expected to have any direct impact on the current farm bill discussions, but it could show whether lawmakers will face even greater budget challenges in the next Congress if they don’t get the legislation done this year.

Passage of the Consumer Right to Repair Agriculture Equipment Act makes Colorado the first U.S. state to allow farmers to legally fix their own equipment.

Farmland values are maintaining their strength, and loan volumes are declining, but economic growth in rural parts of the Midwest and northern Plains remains slow, according to Creighton University's Rural Mainstreet Index.

Farmworkers in Oregon will earn overtime pay starting next year under a bill passed by the Legislature last week.

New animal rights agendas in Western states are threatening to curtail livestock production there as animal rights groups latched onto an environmental platform that calls for cutting back or eliminating meat consumption altogether to help slow climate change.