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The May family are recipients of the 2021 Colorado Leopold Conservation Award. Courtesy photo
-Sand County Foundation and Colorado Cattlemen s Association
The May Ranch of Lamar has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Colorado Leopold Conservation Award.
The May Ranch is owned and operated by the Dallas and Brenda May family of Prowers County. The conservation practices that the Mays have implemented on their cattle ranch have improved the wildlife habitat, water quality and grass and soil health.
The award, given in honor of renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold, recognizes ranchers, farmers, and forestland owners who inspire others with their voluntary conservation efforts on private, working lands.
by Robert Davis, The Center Square | April 22, 2021 09:00 AM Print this article
A proposed ballot measure in Colorado is drawing the ire of Weld County commissioners and members of the state’s agriculture industry.
Initiative 16, which could appear on the November 2022 ballot, purports to expand state prohibitions against animal cruelty. However, commissioners in the rural county contend that it will harm farmers, ranchers, and other professions.
Weld County commissioners on Wednesday voted unanimously to oppose the measure.
Commissioner Pro-Tem Scott James described the initiative as bad policy that s clouded with spin.
“When people hear the spin on this initiative, it sounds good – who doesn’t want to end animal cruelty – however, the language being used to tug at voter’s heartstrings is hollow when you actually read the verbiage proposed and educate yourself on what it is really aiming to accomplish,” James said in a st
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Students at Shasta College in Redding, Calif., put a castration band on a calf in 2019. Proposed ballot initiatives in Oregon and Colorado would ban the practice. IP13 would classify slaughter as aggravated abuse, redefine AI and castration as sexual assault.
An Oregon ballot initiative proposed for 2022 would effectively criminalize the farming of food animals in the state by classifying their slaughter as aggravated abuse and redefining artificial insemination and castration as sexual assault.
Initiative Petition 13, filed with Oregon elections officials in November, would remove farmer exemptions from existing laws barring animal cruelty and specifically target practices used for “(b)reeding domestic, livestock, and equine animals,” according to the text of the initiative.
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