Emotions ran high at the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting held Thursday at ground zero of recent wolf depredations, with pleas from ranchers for the state to allow the use of night vision imaging to kill wolves, and wolf advocates calling for patience before the use of lethal means. After a lengthy public comment […]
Argentina is implementing a new certification process to raise climate-friendly beef. Few incentives exist for farmers to raise climate-friendly livestock, but this certification process, reported by Phys.org, aims to change that. Livestock production is a key contributor of polluting gases, accounting for 12% of global and two-thirds of agriculture’s annual pollution, per the outlet. The […]
Texas wildlife officials killed 249 captive deer on a private ranch this week, ending the longest-running challenge in recent years to the state’s policy of euthanizing breeder-cultivated deer herds infected with chronic wasting disease, or CWD. The slaughter ends a three-year standoff with game rancher Robert Williams, 85. His tenacious legal challenges had raised the prospect that […]
Last week was a bad one for libertarianism. Actually, it’s been a bad decade for libertarianism. “No, it’s been a bad century,” a devout libertarian might counter, accurately enough. Still, things seem to be going especially badly when the Libertarian Party excitedly announces as a guest speaker at its upcoming convention a guy who relishes […]
The Middle Park Stockgrowers Association said it has been ghosted by Gov. Jared Polis and Colorado Department of Natural Resources and Colorado Parks and Wildlife leadership since sending a letter requesting they authorize the lethal removal of two wolves responsible for multiple recent cattle kills. The association represents Grand and Summit counties, where 10 wolves […]
DENVER – Two southeast Colorado ranchers were sentenced to prison and must pay $6.5 million in fines after pleading guilty to tampering with rain gauges in order to collect crop insurance. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Patrick Esch and Ed Jagers, of Springfield, Colorado, conspired to defraud insurance programs by making it seem that […]
Mar. 8—The California Bountiful Foundation has launched its first mentorship program called “Expanding Our Roots.” This free program aims to pair beginning farmers and ranchers with experienced mentors to help alleviate the learning curve and mitigate the financial risks associated with taking on a career in agriculture. “Agriculture in California is one big family,” said […]
I realize it is all the rage these days to demonize the migrants who are streaming into our country through that sieve we call a border wall. Joe Biden’s bungle on the border is a dream come true for the Republican Party. Now the Arizona Legislature has come up with a creative new plan to […]
Dec. 26—About $3 million in federal funding will be made available to New Mexico ranchers to help them protect livestock against predators, including Mexican wolves in an area designated for recovery of the endangered species. The funding is part of $22 million the U.S. Department of Agriculture is funneling to five Western states through a […]
Dec. 26—About $3 million in federal funding will be made available to New Mexico ranchers to help them protect their livestock against predators, including Mexican wolves in an area designated for recovery of the endangered species. The funding is part of $22 million the U.S. Department of Agriculture is funneling to five Western states through […]
Colorado ranchers claim that Colorado Parks and Wildlife has reneged on its promise to avoid bringing wolves into the state that have been confirmed to have killed livestock in Oregon. CPW this week released 10 wolves captured in Oregon into Grand and Summit counties, completing this year’s reintroduction releases. Half of the wolves released into […]
GRAND COUNTY, Colorado (AP) — Somewhere on a remote mountainside in Colorado’s Rockies, a latch flipped on a crate and a wolf bounded out, heading toward the tree line. Then it stopped short. For a moment, the young female looked back at it’s audience of roughly 45 people who stared on in reverential silence. Then […]