By John Stencel
Organic food production is a growing market that offers a good opportunity for many producers in the Rocky Mountain area. The U.S. organic food industry is growing at an estimated 15-20 percent per year. Colorado is on the leading edge of this trend, leading the nation in the number of open range acres […]

By Paul Stout
I am taking this opportunity to speak to you not as your Rocky Mountain Farmers Union vice president, but as a fellow member and farmer, to put in my two cents worth regarding the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and its website showing farm program payment recipients from 1995 to 2000. I spent several […]

By John Stencel
The recent posting of all federal farm program recipients on the Environmental Working Group’s web site has raised the ire of farmers and renewed the debate of what role the government should play in production agriculture. I recently spoke with Randy Adler, a Longmont, Colo. farmer who was listed in the Longmont Times […]