Tag: Agriculture And Food Technology
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Opening weekend at National Western Stock Show sets attendance records
Crowds flocked to the 117th year of the National Western Stock Show, breaking attendance records for the opening weekend, according to a news release. Officials counted 109,978 Stock Show fans visiting Saturday and Sunday, breaking the previous opening weekend attendance record of 106,921 guests, set in 2020. “I would like to personally thank everyone that…
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Palisade producers promise peaches aplenty
Seeing rows of trees dotted with tiny green fruit, you can almost taste soft-serve Palisade peach swirled in a sugar cone. In what seems to have been a bad weather year everywhere else, it’s been good for the Colorado peach crop. If May’s mild temperatures hold, the Western Slope’s Palisade peach producers are predicting one…
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Agriculture-focused The STEAD school opens in Commerce City
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The STEAD school, dubbed the “nation’s first fully integrated nextgen agriculture secondary school,” opened Friday in Commerce City’s Reunion subdivision. The 27J School District charter school is located on the city’s far northeast edge off 108th Avenue and Walden Street. It’s part of the 10-acre…
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Metro Moves: Planterra debuts new R&D plant
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Welcome to the Denver Gazette’s Metro Moves. You’ll get the latest metro Denver openings, closings, hiring and promotion briefs here. To submit your company’s news, drop an email to [email protected]. Now open Planterra Foods, the plant-based food maker that’s part of Greeley-based JBS USA, opened…
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Boulder County opens applications for food and agriculture project fund
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Applications opened Friday for Boulder County’s 2021 Sustainable Food and Agriculture Fund, supplying grants for environmental sustainability projects that benefit the county’s food and agricultural system. The fund, run by Boulder County’s Office of Sustainability, Climate Action and Resilience, offers the one-time grants to farmers,…