Credit Luke Runyon / KUNC and Harvest Public Media
Plastic lines rows of recently planted cantaloupe seeds in Rocky Ford.
While spring snow storms have eased drought conditions in parts of Northern Colorado, in the southern part of the state the dry weather is forcing farmers to make some tough decisions.
Recent snow in the mountains is certainly going a long way to boosting the state’s snowpack. For much of the Front Range and parts of the Western Slope, the cold temperatures are making the biggest difference towards relieving some the drought conditions.