Live Breaking News & Updates on Pueblo county stockmen
Stay updated with breaking news from Pueblo county stockmen. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The Colorado Department of Agriculture has hired two new regional assistant commissioners to help strengthen the agency’s connection to agricultural communities across the state. These positions were created last year and serve as a key...
The Pueblo Chieftain Colorado ranchers and agricultural groups are staunchly opposing an initiative that could end up on the 2022 ballot that they say would drastically alter livestock production and crumble the agricultural economy in the state. Initiative 16, dubbed Protecting Animals from Unnecessary Suffering and Exploitation, or PAUSE, by proponents, is intended to expand animal cruelty definitions to livestock. And while it is meant to protect cows, chickens, pigs and other livestock from abuse, opponents argue that the initiative would negatively impact the state’s $47 billion agricultural industry. “I don't know what the people who wrote it, what their true objectives were, but from the producer’s side, it is devastating. If this thing were to pass, I truly feel that agriculture in the state of Colorado would go,” Pueblo County Stockmen’s Association board member Carl Beeman said.
Colorado Initiative 16 would tighten rules on treatment of livestock chieftain.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chieftain.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.