The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) has enacted special provisions to the agency’s emergency loan program and to the Risk Management Agency (RMA) federal crop insurance program in order to provide greater flexibility for livestock producers facing forage and feed shortages as a result of drought.

John Berge, deputy administrator for field operations for the Farm Service Agency, recently acknowledged that political gridlock and bitter partisanship in the nation’s capital had inflicted greater hardship on the nearly 1,600 counties ravaged by the drought. “I know this is stuff you already know, but this is a perfect storm in many ways.

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.