The Colorado Agricultural Leadership Program (CALP) is accepting applications from emerging leaders looking to further develop their skills and their commitment to the future of Colorado’s agricultural and rural communities.

Participants in the program travel the state, learning about agriculture in every region, while also honing their personal leadership skills. As a culmination to the two-year program, the group also participates in an international trip to learn about agriculture in a foreign country and trade between that nation and the U.S.

Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Tom Udall (D-NM) along with Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Martin Heinrich (D-NV), and John McCain (R-AZ) introduced an amendment to the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) to address the response costs associated with the Gold King Mine spill, and direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to work with affected States, Indian tribes, and local governments on a long-term water quality monitoring program of the rivers contaminated by the spill.

By Sharon Scott

Weekend before last, Jen Hopkins and children traveled to Woodston, KS to help her grandmother, Venda Poore celebrate her 97th birthday. 

Happy Belated Birthday Venda, hope you have many more!

Susan Greenfield would like to thank whomever cut down the bushes along the highway on her street.  You can now easily see oncoming traffic when stopped at the stop sign.

Dick and I traveled to Pueblo last Wednesday to do some shopping and to consult with his eye Dr.

Colorado Corn has partnered with Colorado State University's Rural Energy Center to assess the economic feasibility of solar and wind energy on farms with center pivot sprinklers. The project -- called Solar and Wind Assessments for Pivots (SWAP) -- was based on the idea that corners of fields with center pivot sprinklers could host solar arrays or wind turbines. 

These systems would be tied into the grid to offset electricity used for irrigation pumping. 

By Chris Sorensen

The run-up to the start of autumn Thursday will see sunny, hot days with minimal chance of rain in Kiowa County.

A broad ridge expands northward out of Texas and New Mexico Sunday leading to clear skies and no chance of rain. Through the latter part of the week, expect mostly sunny days with high temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s. Some lingering moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Paine will begin to move into Colorado Tuesday, potentially leading to isolated storms over the eastern plains Wednesday.

By Bob Garver

“Sully” tells the story of eponymous pilot Chesley Sullenberger (Tom Hanks), who on January 15 2009, after a dual engine failure in midair, landed a large passenger aircraft in the middle of the Hudson River. The landing was rough, unconventional, and controversial, but it saved the lives of all 155 passengers and crew on board. Though there were many heroes that day, including First Officer Jeffrey Skiles (Aaron Eckhart), Sully was proclaimed the biggest hero of all.

By Colorado Parks and Wildlife

If you plan to use horses on your hunting trip, please be aware of the following:

- You must have a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection issued by an accredited veterinarian 30 days prior to entry into Colorado. Include the physical address of the horse in your state and the location where the horse will be in Colorado.

By Betsy Markey, SBA’s Region VIII Administrator

The decision has been made. You have decided that XYZ bank is the bank-of-choice to lend your company some badly needed capital. Now is the time to pay that banker a visit, right? Wrong.

Slim Randles

September means pencils and books for the youngsters, but it also means state fair season. That’s when the world’s largest zucchini squash is at its prime, of course. The farm animals are all shed off and shiny and cute, their horns polished to diamond-like perfection by hard-working and hopeful kids.