agriculture

COLORADO 

Colorado egg production during April 2022 was 126.3 million eggs, up 1 percent from March 2022 but down 2 percent from April 2021 production, according to the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. The average number of layers on hand in April 2022 was 4.98 million, down less than 1 percent from March 2022 and down 4 percent from last year. Eggs per 100 layers were 2,539 eggs, up 3 percent from last year. 

April 2022 cattle on feed summary for Colorado and the United States from the USDA.

Approximately $100 million will be distributed to farmers integrating new technologies that use less water, according to Utah Governor Spencer Cox.

Much of the western U.S. has been in the grip of an unrelenting drought since early 2020. The dryness has coincided with record-breaking wildfires, intense and long-lasting heat waves, low stream flows and dwindling water supplies in reservoirs that millions of people across the region rely on.

North Dakota's State Department of Environmental Quality is monitoring water surface water about 33 miles south of Fargo, where a liquid fertilizer spill occurred recently.

April 2022 livestock slaughter highlights for the United States from the USDA.

Wyoming crop progress and condition report from the USDA for the week ending May 15, 2022.

Colorado crop progress and condition report from the USDA for the week ending May 15, 2022.

Agriculture news and information from the Eads USDA Service Center in Kiowa County, Colorado.

Rising competition for many of the world's important crops is sending increasing amounts toward uses other than directly feeding people.