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Colorado Agriculture: Mining, Railroads, and Early Farms
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Heather Hadwick Sounds the Alarm on California’s Growing Wolf Crisis
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California Raisins in Trouble: Kalem Barserian Warns the Industry Is Shrinking Fast
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Potter Valley Dam Removal Threatens California Water Supply
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Kalem Barsarian Sounds the Alarm on the Future of California Raisins
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Colorado’s Agricultural Turning Point
…quickly, creating demand for food, livestock, and local agricultural production. The arrival of railroads in Denver in the late 1870s proved to be a turning point. Rail connections linked Colorado…
California Pear Growers Sound the Alarm on Argentine Imports
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Why California Agriculture Is Losing Ground Despite Feeding the World
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Damian Mason Says California Ag Is Outnumbered, Out Regulated, and Still Unmatched
…yet the impact lands hard on the people producing the food. One of the most striking points Mason made was about the unique advantage California has, a Mediterranean climate found…
How Soybeans Became America’s Leading Crop
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Soil Health, Water, and the Future of Farming With Live Earth
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California’s Budget Boom, Soil Solutions, and a Major Malaysia Trade Deal for U.S. Ag
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Shannon Douglas on California’s Big Five: Water, Labor, Regulations, Wolves, and the Future of Farm Tech
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