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2024

Fall

  • Tips for evaluating hay quality
  • Human-Animal Bond in Colorado
  • A small scale farmer’s innovative solution to land restoration.
  • Upcoming events

Summer

  • Grasshopper control in gardens and small acreages.
  • The power of grief.
  • Yellow and white clover: a weed or beneficial forage species?
  • Be careful with blister beetles this summer.
  • HPAI update.
  • Resources and events

Spring

  • Planting trees in spring.
  • The power of emotional language
  • Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus
  • Best ways to water your raised bed garden.
  • Disposing horse carcasses on private property
  • Resources and events

Winter

  • Our disappearing rangelands
  • Colorado sagebrushes
  • From our lands to your hands
  • Upcoming events

2023

Winter

  • Introducing the new SAM specialists
  • Composting HPAI mortalities
  • Strength outside of the farm
  • Reseeding tips for the front range region
  • Resources and events

Spring

  • Dealing with fleas and ticks
  • Setting your vegetable garden up for success
  • Aminopyralids: Restrictions for grazing, compost and manure
  • Resources and events

Summer

  • How to integrate mowing into weed management plans
  • A plant-based approach to managing pests in vegetable gardens
  • Prairie dog control for small acreages
  • Resources and events

Fall

  • Grass workshop at Boulder County-Recap
  • Before you dig
  • Weedy plants characteristics and management strategies
  • NEW Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Funding Opportunities Now Available for Colorado Historically Underserved and Beginning Farmers and Ranchers

2022

Spring

  • A Fond Farewell
  • Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
  • HPAI – What to Expect if you Suspect
  • Herbicides: A Chemical Romance
  • When is its No Longer Just a Drought?
  • Equine Biosecurity

Winter

  • Feral Swine Report
  • Marketing Lambs and Goats by Ethnic Calendar
  • Top Performers from CSU Flower Trials
  • Soil Health for Small Acreages
  • CSU Study on Carbon Cycles in Grasslands

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