With an eye on water levels, grazing options and the bottom line, cattle producers tailor strategies for survival

https://coloradosun.com/2026/06/22/ready-for-your-next-steak-these-ranchers-are-battling-drought-to-bring-it-to-you/

Ready for your next steak? These ranchers are battling drought to bring your way.

Ranchers in Colorado are facing drought following a record-low snowpack that melted a month earlier than usual after a heat wave in March.

The Colorado Sun
@coloradosun welfare ranchers on public land in the west produce 2% of Americans total beef production and alfalfa is sucking the Colorado River dry. The writing has been in the wall for decades They can learn to adapt like the rest of us and stop being subsidized to destroy public land #deadpool #cowboymyth #Bundy #rewild #graywolf #WildlifeServices #BLM #westernwater #basinstates @WesternWatershedsProject