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After another long, dry summer across the West, reservoirs in the region remain at record-low levels. It will take years of wet winters to climb out of drought, and La Niña conditions mean this winter is unlikely to bring one.

Business is booming at cattle sales yards throughout Colorado. That’s not so good though for western slope ranchers. Last year's dry winter combined with…

Hay prices are up sharply because of the drought across much of the nation. So hay bales sitting in fields have become hot properties. So much so, in fact, that a sheriff in Oklahoma put a GPS tracker in one bale. It helped him track down the suspects.

One of ranching’s most basic materials is in high demand right now. With the price of hay doubling for some smaller operations along the Front Range, some…

The scarcity and sky-high price of hay is causing worry among some Colorado livestock producers.It’s also prompting theft in Larimer County, where the…