Agricultural research and technology

Local News

Drought, range control, New World screwworm – La Plata County ranchers have a lot on their plate

Plata-Archuleta Cattlemen discuss management strategies

November 21, 2025

From the Extension Office

October marks a new beginning for 4-H in La Plata County

To learn more, visit laplatacounty4h.org or call us at the La Plata County Extension Office. (Please note that due to…

October 26, 2025

Agriculture

Ute Mountain Ute Tribe awarded $9.6 million grant for land management improvements

grant will help alleviate the effects of drought while improving water usage

November 6, 2024

Local News

Ignacio FFA chapter to add new chicken coop building

district’s agricultural education department received grant to help pay for 160-square-foot structure

October 29, 2024

Local News

Technology in agriculture luring more students to field, Colorado State University president says

Parsons visited Durango, Western Slope as part of community outreach trip

July 31, 2024

Local News

Photos: Durango High School ag classes raise sheep

Durango High School students from left, Kylee Cheese, 15, Shaylee Valencia, 16, Lilli Williams, 16, and Grier Metz, 14, hold…

May 10, 2024

Local News

Seeding a sustainable future

Mountain Ute Farm and Ranch using water allocation to prepare for a dry future

July 4, 2023

New Mexico

Four Corners Beekeepers Association provides education, support

Benefits of bees, beekeeping are vast

May 25, 2023

Local News

Kids and kittens: Middle school students learn veterinary science by caring for cats

plan includes a crash course in disease, vaccines and good hygiene

February 11, 2022

Business

Without ‘right to repair,’ businesses lose time and money

Sarah Rachor works in her hop yard on April 4 near Sidney, Mont. Rachor has a tractor from 1998, mainly…

August 11, 2021

Local News

Concerns raised about research arm built into 2018 farm bill

$867B spending package was signed in December by Trump

October 18, 2019

Local News

Disease, cold spring hamper hemp rush

acres more than double in La Plata, Montezuma counties

September 14, 2019

Local News

Fort Lewis College professor gets $100k to study bee die-offs

Collins will work with researcher in Germany

July 16, 2018

Local News

Montezuma orchard project receives two state grants

will go toward apple varieties, education

November 15, 2017

Local News

Montezuma orchard project receives two state grants

Funding will go toward apple varieties, education

November 10, 2017

Regional News

In the Southwest, a sustainable breed of cattle

Criollo thrive in conditions hard for others

November 9, 2017

Business

Lewis-Arriola farm conference will focus on profitability

No-till, organic and a center-pivot drip system on agenda

November 3, 2017

Southwest Life

Water dragon feeds Pleasant View farm

Experimental system aims to reduce erosion

September 24, 2017

Local News

Mesa Verde migration to New Mexico gets new evidence

Genetic study of domestic turkeys shows a path south

August 13, 2017

Food

How much does giving up beef help the planet?

A cow/calf pair in Rock County, Neb.Bill Wolf/Associated Press file Estimates vary, but something in the neighborhood of 30 percent…

July 24, 2017

Business

How an experiment turned Canadian farmers into cooking oil kings

Corn, canola and vegetable oil sits on display in a supermarket in Princeton, Illinois.Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Farmers across the Prairie Provinces…

June 8, 2017

Local News

Fort Lewis College grad works on Navajo Nation food security

Brandon Francis interested in bioremediation after Gold King Mine spill

February 27, 2017

Food

Rohwer’s Farm turns up the heat

Pleasant View farmers use plasticulture to produce fresh food in winter

February 22, 2017

Southwest Life

Four Corners cover crop study shows mixed results first year

Dryland farmers see mixed results

February 15, 2017