-Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association
Bruce Talbott, co-owner/operator of Talbott’s Mountain Gold, a Palisade orchard producing peaches and wine grapes, has been elected president of the Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers board of directors. The vacancy arose when long-time president, Robert Sakata, Sakata Farms, Brighton, was appointed to the Colorado Water Conservation Board and stepped down as CFVGA president. Talbott has been a member of the CFVGA board since the first slate of board members was seated in February 2015 and served a term as secretary.
“I am honored by my fellow board members to be elected to this position,” said Talbott. “We have a great foundation as an organization that is relatively young. I hope we can build on this foundation, and successfully represent the interests and concerns of the Colorado produce industry. I don’t believe there has been a time in Colorado history when agricultural producers have been under the level of politic
State lawmakers plan to put an additional $20 million into the Colorado Water Plan under a bipartisan measure that won preliminary approval in the Colorado House on Wednesday.
That money comes on top of whatever revenue the state earns from sports betting, which voters approved in Proposition DD in 2019. The money would go to the Colorado Water Conservation Board, a division of the Department of Natural Resources that provides grants for water projects across the state.
âItâs going to require at least $100 million a year for us to satisfy the needs that have been outlined in that plan,â said House Speaker Alec Garnett, D-Denver, who introduced House Bill 1260 with Rep. Marc Catlin, R-Montrose.
Posted by Jan Wondra | Apr 28, 2021
Funding Awarded as a Part of the Bennet-authored Regional Conservation Partnership Program
Tuesday morning, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet announced that the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) will award more than $6 million to the Colorado Open Lands Rio Grande Partnership to Preserve Agriculture and Restore Aquifer (PARA).
“The Upper Rio Grande Basin is vital to our regional economy and provides important wildlife habitat,” said Bennet. “I’m delighted that the Colorado Open Lands Rio Grande Project will receive over $6 million in funding from the Regional Conservation Partnership Program. This will unlock an innovative and locally-developed new approach to groundwater management in an effort to sustain the local agricultural economy and maintain wildlife habitat. Last summer I was able to visit with producers in the San Luis Valley pursuing this project and I look f
Drought and dry soils again will diminish Colorado s spring runoff vaildaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vaildaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The dam at Ruedi Reservoir, seen here in early April. The reservoir is currently 57% full andBureau of Reclamation officials predict it will be possible to fill this year if they keep releasing just the minimum downstream for now.
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Water forecasting agencies in Colorado have released their April streamflow predictions, confirming what many already knew: Drought and dry soils will diminish rivers this spring.
“The main story of this water supply outlook season is the effect of last year’s drought going into winter,” said Karl Wetlaufer, a hydrologist and assistant supervisor with the Natural Resources Conservation Service Colorado Snow Survey. “We are anticipating significantly lower runoff compared with the snowpack because we entered winter with such dry conditions that the soils are going to have to soak up a ton of moisture before it actually makes it through the system into the river.”