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For more than two decades, Dan Fernandez has been a steadfast figure in Southwest Colorado agriculture.From his post as the director of the Dolores County Colorado State University Extension...
DATE: July 5, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business
Montezuma-Cortez High School agriculture education instructors Kevin McComb and Amanda Ramos attended The National Association of Agriculture Educators Region 2 conference June 12-15 in Pueblo....
DATE: July 5, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business
Small businesses in Montezuma County already struggling to keep their doors open in the economic downturn are now faced with paying the costs of higher unemployment insurance rates. In January...
DATE: June 28, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business
An excellent illustration of a CSA farm, or community supported agriculture, is Confluence Farm, on County Road 38. Mary Vozar and Paul Bohmann have worked for five years to grow spring greens and...
DATE: June 21, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business
It started with the unmistakable sound.You could hear the 400 cows before they stomped their way into Dolores on the morning of June 7, and then, there they were, marching down Railroad Avenue,...
DATE: June 21, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business
A day at the office for these two farmers is a long day, but very rewarding. It is mostly spent outdoors, doing what they love, and coaxing the earth to do what it does naturally grow good...
DATE: June 21, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business
The ranchers started early, weaving their horses in and out of the cattle to herd them from the pasture toward the old wooden gate and the road that would lead them north. Hi-ya pierced the drone...
DATE: June 21, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business
Dalton Daves, Cody Likes, Quinton Lanier, Staton Jeter and Patrick Cottam-Rhine of the Cortez FFA Chapter earned their State FFA Degree at the 83rd State FFA Convention June 1-3. All five members...
DATE: June 21, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business
Dalton Daves of the Cortez FFA Chapter was named Southwest District Star Farmer at the 83rd Colorado FFA Convention June 1-3. The District Star Farmer award recognizes outstanding achievement in a...
DATE: June 21, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business
Laura Heaton, of Cortez, received the Washington Leadership Conference Scholarship at the 83rd Colorado FFA Convention on June 2.Other recipients were Mary Kate McCall, Lone Star; Sky McEndaffer,...
DATE: June 21, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business
Katelynn Wilson of Cortez FFA earned first-place honors in the Colorado Forage Production Proficiency Award area during the 83rd Colorado FFA Convention on Friday, June 3, in Alamosa.Wilson credits...
DATE: June 21, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business
When you walk into their beautiful log home on a curvy road near Jackson Lake, you instantly know what their business is. You can smell it. The lovely scents of their soaps and other handcrafted...
DATE: June 14, 2011 | CATEGORY: Business
Fort Lewis College is updating about a dozen panels at the Clock Tower in the center of campus to better recognize the past, "in a way that's fully inclusive of our Native American community on campus and the families directly affected by Indian boarding schools."
