Take the opportunity to learn how water is used in agriculture first hand. Explore working farms and ditches. See how water is used in irrigation and what farmers are doing about conservation. Join the Colorado Ag Water Alliance on these full day tours and see a variety of speakers from local producers to the Commissioner of Agriculture.
The bus tour takes you through the Greeley to see the USDA farm study sites, local working farms, irrigation systems and diversion ditches.
Speakers include:
Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture Don Brown, Gregory Graff of Colorado State University, Dave Eckhardt from Eckhardt Farms, Mark Sponsler of Colorado Corn, Kendall DeJonge of USDA-ARS, Jon Altenhofen from Northern Water, Greg Kernohan from Ducks Unlimited, Randy Ray from the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, Corey DeAngelis from the Division of Water Resource, and Rod Weimer from the Fagerberg Farm.
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