The arid, wind-swept ground stripped of topsoil by Dust Bowl storms has laid undisturbed beneath a protective cover of native grasses that took two decades to re-establish under the Conservation Reserve Program. But millions of those acres are being plowed again after the 2008 Farm Bill capped the program at 32 million acres.

The flooding that swamped large areas of the Midwest took with it some of the region's  most valuable resource: soil

Pueblo and Crowley counties have been added to the Colorado counties plagued enough by drought to warrant emergency status.

Anglers in southeast Colorado will soon benefit from an agreement reached between the Colorado Division of Wildlife and the city of Aurora for 10,000 acre-feet of water for Nee Noshe Reservoir in Kiowa County near Eads, Colo.

Bent County ranchland is extremely dry this summer and grazing conditions correspondingly very poor. ‘I would say this is the worst year of the dr

The federal Farm Service Agency has approved emergency drought assistance for some parts of southeastern Colorado that have been hurt by below-average precipitation.  In June, Gov.

U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., said the new farm bill, which he believes will soon pass, will contribute to national conservation efforts. “It’s a major step forward for conservation in terms of renewable energy and in terms of nutrition,” Salazar said in an appearance at the Morgan County Rural Electric Association on Thursday.