Transforming Colorado's Ag Landscape

Transforming Colorado's Ag Landscape

Transforming Colorado's Ag Landscape. I'm Greg Martin with Colorado Ag Today.

Colorado's agriculture may be on the brink of a revolution. A technology revolution.

GRAY: During his talk at the CSU Ag Summit recently Governor Hickenlooper referenced how the Netherlands have utilized advances in science and technology to ramp up the production of ag products. Those kinds of advances are starting to be seen in Colorado. He mentioned a Broomfield company called aWhere that provides ag data in realtime.

HICKENLOOPER: Now you might ask why are research and innovation so important for ag. Why is this data in realtime so valuable? It's crop yields. It allows us to conserve fuel and water, allows us to have the potential to reduce adverse environmental impacts of all different sorts and overall to just be smarter and more efficient.

MARTIN: Ag related technology jobs are on the increase in Colorado as well. Things like drones are going to become as much a mainstay on the farm as are tractors and will provide increasingly more and more data that producers can use to increase overall yield. Hickenlooper talked about the feeding of the world in the future.

HICKENLOOPER: World population is expected at two billion more people by 2050. You could that with the fact that diets are changing in places like India and China where they're moving towards more protein rich diets it's going to put increasing pressure on our food and agricultural systems.

GRAY: Again in reference to the Netherlands the governor talked about their "food valley" where nearly a quarter of the worlds tomatoes are grown and how that same idea is being done in Colorado with collaborations with the ag innovation corridor.

And that's Colorado Ag Today. I'm Greg Martin, thanks for listening on the Ag Information Network of the West.

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