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Prospective Planting Survey Bill Meyer, Director of the National Agricultural Statistics Service Colorado Field Office. Meyer:” This survey will be used to measure what producers intend to plant this spring as far as spring crops, like corn, sorghum, dry beans. We’ll also get a measure of how much hay they intend to harvest this year and the grains stock that they have on hand. This survey is so important for the whole ag industry to get an idea of what will be produced in this upcoming year.” Meyer says they are collecting the data through the first half of March. There is an online r...

collaboration. In October 2019, New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland led a House subcommittee hearing on the effects of anti-government extremism on federal land management officials. The Government Accountability Office had recently documented more than 350 incidents of threats and assaults targeting land management employees between 2013 and 2017. As the watchdog group noted, even that data did not capture the full picture, in part because not all incidents are reported. Some officials told investigators they “consider receiving threats a normal part of their job.” Advertisement Haaland, then i...

Unemployment among basic-income recipients in Stockton, California, dropped to 8% in February 2020 from 12% in February 2019.

Gary Paul jokes around with his longtime girlfriend Cassie Sharon outside of his ranch home during a recent visit from Sharon in February 2021. Sharon and Paul have been friends and partners for several years now, but after a traumatic year of dealing with the stress and struggle of the drought and unfair treatment from Paul, Sharon decided to take a step back from the relationship before making amends with Paul in early 2021. (Forrest Czarnecki/The Gazette) Forrest Czarnecki

Alice McDonald leans on the front of her truck while looking out over a property on The Dry, where she grew up and spent many years of her life. She remembers many of the families that were out on The Dry when she grew up, but over the years they all disappeared, until only her family and a couple others were left. Many of the families have lost of sold their homesteads, but McDonald is steadfast to keep the property in her family and pass it on to her son. (Forrest Czarnecki/The Gazette) Forrest Czarnecki