All Entries Tagged With: "irrigation"
Prowers Conservation District Soil Health Presentation
SOIL HEALTH PRESENTATION HOSTED BY PROWERS CONSERVATION DISTRICT OFFERS PRODUCERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THEIR SOIL AS A LIVING ORGANISMS RATHER THAN AN INANIMATE OBJECT. Producers that attended the February 17th workshop learned that every time you slice into the soil you release moisture and damage soil structure. Guest speaker Ryan Hytree, Soil […]
State Water Plan Reviewed at Crop Production Clinic
John Stulp, former State Agriculture Secretary, Prowers County Commissioner and current Special Policy Advisor to Governor Hickenlooper for Water issues, was one of eight speakers at the January 6th Crop Production Clinic held at Lamar Community College. Stulp provided an update on the Governor’s State Water Plan which was presented to Hickenlooper last month. […]
Reinke Recognizes Colorado Plains Irrigation with Silver Pride Award at Annual Convention
Reinke is excited to announce that Colorado Plains Irrigation, LLC of Lamar, Colo., has received a Silver Reinke Pride award in recognition of the company’s 2013-2014 marketing year success. The Reinke dealership was honored during Reinke’s recent annual convention held October 23-25, 2014, in Palm Springs, Calif. “Congratulations to Colorado Plains Irrigation on this well-deserved […]
Holly Trustees Reject Electric Rate Tariff Increase
The Holly Board of Trustees unanimously voted not to pass an ordinance which would have modified the electric rate tariff schedules for the town. Those trustees who spoke against it prior to the vote, Campbell, Jones, Lyons and Sitts, said they could not support the size of the increases which would have fallen to […]
Reinke Recognizes Colorado Plains Irrigation with Gold Pride Award at Annual Convention
Reinke Manufacturing Company, Inc., a leading manufacturer of mechanized irrigation systems, is excited to announce that Colorado Plains Irrigation in Lamar, Colo., has received a Gold Reinke Pride award in recognition of the company’s 2012-2013 marketing year success. The Reinke dealership was honored during Reinke’s recent annual convention held October 20-22, 2013, in Omaha, Neb. […]
Water Report for May 14, 2013
Here are the Surface Water Conditions for Division 2: Arkansas River Basin – Las Animas to State Line.
Improved Levees, Cost or Investment?
Photos and Video by Russ Baldwin The levee system throughout Prowers County is coming under review by FEMA engineers, conducting a coast-to-coast mapping of potential flood plains and an assessment of the flood risk in Prowers County. This is part of a national study which began two years ago to reform the National Flood Insurance […]