It's hard to imagine from the look of the lush lawns of metro Denver, but from the plains to the Front Range, much of eastern Colorado is a disaster area. On Monday, the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture designated numerous Colorado counties as primary natural disaster areas because of drought or freeze losses this year. In addition, counties contiguous to those primary areas also qualify for natural disaster benefits.

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.

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.

Las Animas County is petitioning the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a declaration of drought disaster in the county, seeking assistance from the department's Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP).

Gov. Bill Ritter today asked the federal government for drought relief assistance to help farmers and ranchers in Baca, Bent, Kiowa and Prowers counties in Southeast Colorado. In a letter to Lewis Frank, Colorado director for the Farm Service Agency within the U.S.