Early Freeze Latest Disaster for Colorado Growers
Wednesday Dec 23rd, 2020
Between the late freeze in April, wildfires summer and fall, and the COVID 19 pandemic…
Greenberg: “Choose your disaster” year.
Commissioner of Agriculture Kate Greenberg says the late October freeze was just the latest hardship for Mesa, Delta, and Montrose counties along the Western Slope.
Greenberg: “Especially in the wine industry out there but we know that fruit producers were also hit.”
Now those growers wait word on the Disaster Declaration from the Secretary of Ag requested by Governor Polis. If granted those producers will have access to disaster funding sometime in the new year.