The May Ranch of Lamar, Colo., has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Colorado Leopold Conservation Award®. The May Ranch is owned and operated by the Dallas and Brenda May family of Prowers County.

Against the backdrop of Earth Day and the climate summit, you will hear claims cattle and sustainability can’t mix. As one whose ranch is older than USDA, I say farmers and ranchers are the original conservationists.

Data collected by the Red Angus Association of America suggest producers who regularly genotype their females make more rapid genetic progress than their counterparts.

Biden is introducing a plan to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. As some U.S. farmers see commodity prices hit a seven-year high, ag groups say moving land out of production may be a tough sell.

It started with a broken baler. The farmer panicked. He had recently lost his brother to cancer and his father to old age. Not to mention he had 2,500 acres to farm, 250 beef cows to attend to and his crop just froze.

Interagency effort will coordinate resources across the federal government to bring immediate relief to irrigators, Tribes, and western communities.