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Colorado's agriculture supports a $47 billion economy with more than 426,000 employees and $1.7 billion in exports. [27] Farming and ranching takes 32 million acres of Colorado land. [28] Colorado's agriculture consumes 88% of the state's water or 4.7 million acre feet. [29] The northeast of the state has the most agricultural business.
Don Brown was born in Yuma, Colorado on December 29, 1954, where he was then raised on a family farm. [1] He attended Yuma High School and graduated there in 1973. [1] Brown was then elected Colorado Future Farmers of America (FFA) president, serving from 1973 through 1974.
Most of the Colorado River basin water used by humans is used to grow feed for livestock—more than four times the amount used for crops for direct human consumption. [5] Today, agriculture is vastly different from before Europeans came to the Americas.
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The Colorado Department of Agriculture is the principal department of the Colorado state government [1] that manages agriculture, food safety, agriculture-related consumer protection, and conservation districts. Kate Greenberg was appointed as Commissioner of the Department in 2019, replacing Don Brown, who retired after serving since 2015. [2]
The town of Fort Collins had been founded in the previous decade on the site of the decommissioned Camp Collins of the United States Army.Moreover, the territorial legislature had designated the site of the Colorado Agricultural College to be in Fort Collins in 1870, although no money had been allocated for structures.
The American Agriculture Movement is an organization consisting primarily of small American farmers. It was formed in 1977 in Campo, Colorado , by a group of farmers. They attempted to organize a strike in which farmers would no longer buy or sell anything.