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Four decades ago, a town in Kansas and a town in Colorado competed to become home to a giant meatpacking plant that, at the time, was the largest of its kind in the world. Here’s what has happened to them since.
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Cow guts are quite the factory. Grass goes in, microbes help break it down and make hydrogen, then other microbes start converting it to another gas. In...
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For every crop in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency carries out a rigorous set of tests to determine which pesticides are safest....
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Douglas rattles around a collection of glass jars in the storage closet of his Denver apartment. They’re filled with a small grain, like barley, and…
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Mosques around the U.S. are taking security seriously in the aftermath of the New Zealand massacres and other attacks on houses of worship.
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Like many of the refugees who have resettled in Greeley, Colorado, 35-year-old Abul Basar is employed by JBS. It’s a massive meatpacking plant that...
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Back in 2010, there were high hopes in Colorado that locally grown hops, the plant that gives beer a bitter or citrusy flavor, would help feed the then...
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The high-desert town of Palisade, Colorado, is synonymous with fresh, locally grown peaches. Years ago, thousands of migrant workers would flock here...
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Back in 2012, one of the major employers in Montrose, Colorado, a sawmill, was in receivership and on the brink of collapse. At the time, local media...
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The Colorado Rockies are packed with natural beauty, huge vistas, pretty flowers and adorable critters.But when I backpacked the 160-mile Collegiate Loop…
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Esperanza Yanez can spot a sick cow just by looking at it.“The head hangs down and they don’t eat,” said Yanez, who immigrated from Mexico two decades ago…
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There’s a long-forbidden crop on the verge of legalization, one that’s versatile and could open up new markets for farmers: hemp.“I believe, honestly,…