Tag:agriculture

Colorado River Basin’s Largest Users Look to Conservation Strategies While Negotiators Work on Future Law of the River

With the Colorado River Basin facing an uncertain future, farmers, ranchers and municipal water managers look to various water conservation strategies to reduce and maximize their water usage.

Colorado Legal Services Seeks to Intervene in Challenge to Agricultural Workers’ Rights Bill

A Colorado law protecting agricultural workers’ rights and ensuring access to essential service providers is undergoing another legal challenge. 

House Introduces Bill to Create an Agricultural Workforce Services Program

Lawmakers introduced a bill that would create a Colorado Agricultural Workforce Services Program in the Department of Agriculture.

Farmworker Advocates Say Proposed Overtime Rules Don’t Go Far Enough

Proposed rules for Colorado’s farmworker bill of rights don't fix historical inequities say labor, immigrant and Latino community advocates.

Supreme Court Expands Private Property Rights Against Government Regulation

In a victory for private property owners, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a California law requiring agricultural landowners to give union organizers temporary access to their property was a government taking that automatically entitled the landowners to compensation.