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.
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Candace Krebs
Special to Ag Journal
It’s hard to predict the future when you can’t be sure what will happen between now and New Year’s, as one restaurateur recently put it, but he and other food and agriculture leaders did their best to distill what they’ve learned and how it will help them “future-proof” the coming year during a virtual symposium hosted by Colorado Proud.
For restaurant owners like Adam Schlegel, whose Denver holdings including Snooze and Chook Chicken, the pandemic compressed five years of adaptation and technology innovation into one.
“This is just a crazy roller coaster that we’re on, and I don’t think that’s going to change for the beginning half of 2021,” he said.