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My grandfather was a mover and shaker in the Colorado sugar-beet industry with Great Western Sugar, and he was also a professor of agriculture at Colorado State University. But the agricultural roots my brother and sisters and I most appreciated were the ones associated with trips to the Western Stock Show, Little Britches Rodeo and the Colorado State Fair.
We rarely missed a show together. It was during those fun days we became closely acquainted with the importance of agriculture in Colorado, as we met my grandfather’s coworkers and friends, many ranchers and farmers, my cousin the cowboy and his friends, and the people behind the scenes in the rodeo and livestock handling.