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The partial government shutdown is playing out differently for the nation’s top food safety regulators. At the Food and Drug Administration, fewer than...
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More than 2,000 federal workers in Colorado have applied for unemployment since the partial government shutdown began last month. KUNC has been asking for your stories. This week we heard from three individuals in Northern Colorado. These are their experiences, in their own words.
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Thornton resident Jennifer Hubby is worried about paying her family's mortgage on time.Her wife, a former Army medic, gets a monthly housing and education…
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In the 1960s, roughly 60 percent of rural adults had not completed high school. That’s according to new research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture,…
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Each spring, ranchers across the Eastern Plains look at their land and ask a very important question: How much green can they expect this season?In this…
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The farm bill traditionally is a bipartisan effort, but House Republicans’ proposed changes to the main federal food-aid program in this year’s version...
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The Union of Concerned Scientists released a report this week saying that the Department of Agriculture has "sidelined science" and "betrayed farmers.”…
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After years of declining income on America’s farms and ranches, the agricultural sector might have finally hit the floor. The latest figures from the U...
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Farms and ranches throughout the country won’t see their labor shortages solved by a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)....
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On a sweltering summer morning, Rob Mitchell surveys a plot of switchgrass at a research field near Lincoln, Nebraska. The grass is lush, green and...