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Colorado Governor Jared Polis was in Southwest Colorado on Tuesday, including a stop in Rico where he met with the town’s volunteer fire department.

Monsoon rains bring much needed, albeit inconsistent, rain to the area, a new report contends that 11 million acres of America’s agricultural land were developed or converted to uses that threaten farming, a breakdown of water use by agriculture, and the 2023 Farm Bureau Farm Dog of the Year Contest is underway.

The Senate Agriculture Committee passed two bills on Wednesday dealing with the regulation of the cattle industry, an activist organization specializing in research about agricultural subsides reports that the government paid a record $41.6 billion in a variety of subsidies to farmers in 2020, double the amount they received in 2018, and reintroduction of wolves in Colorado remains a controversial topic with livestock producers.

It’s wildfire season across the Four Corners, and peak wildfire season in some places. KUER’s Lexi Peery has more on how people in Utah and others in the region can be prepared.

A new round of cutbacks is coming for some water users on the Colorado River. And a new poll shows a majority of Arizonans support permanently banning uranium mining around the Grand Canyon.

Federal officials aren’t ready to give states along the Colorado River a new deadline for water conservation goals. And an initiative that would create a state affordable housing fund in Colorado will be on the ballot in November.

Summertime in Southwest Colorado means spending time on the water. The regions lakes, reservoirs, rivers and creeks provide a ton of outdoor recreation opportunities, but they also are rich ecosystems. One thing that grows in them is algae, which can sometimes be toxic for people and animals.

A gun rights group is taking two more northern Colorado cities to court over firearm restrictions passed in response to the Boulder King Soopers shooting. And a judge in Fort Collins has ordered a legal adviser to former president Donald Trump’s campaign to testify in front of a grand jury.

A forecast for the Four Corners sees cooler temperatures continuing this fall, the USDA reports the value of the nation’s cropland in 2022 is up an average of 14% over 2021, history may be repeating itself with a possible farmland price bubble, and how to harvest the perfect ripe tomato.

States in the Colorado River Basin failed to meet a federal deadline Tuesday to conserve an unprecedented amount of water. And Colorado lawmakers will pursue at least ten wildfire prevention programs when they kick off their legislative session in January.