Wheat Tour

Wheat Tour

Wheat Tour. I’m Greg Martin with Lacy Gray for Colorado Ag Today.

A pair of Colorado’s U.S. Senators got out in the country this past weekend. Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican Cory Gardner found some bi-partisan common ground during an ag tour of Eastern Colorado’s wheat lands.

GRAY: The two senators toured and talked crops like hard red and hard white and even visited Gardner's parents at the family's 100-year-old farm implement dealership in Yuma. The tour has been a tradition for the 4th Congressional District since 1991. Gardner began attending the tour when he was in Congress and has continued not that he’s in the U.S. Senate.

MARTIN: Bennet, was appointed to the Senate in 2009, serves on the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. He was elected in 2010. Gardner was elected to the Senate in 2014, becoming the first Coloradan in 36 years to defeat an incumbent senator.

GRAY: The two Senators spent time roaming around the Eastern Plains with visits to several small towns in northeast Colorado including Holyoke and the Akron Central Great Plains Research station. The visit was applauded by a number of locals and even gave folks a chance to ask some pointed question regarding trade and the EPA.

MARTIN: 80% of the wheat grown in Colorado is exported so trade issues are extremely important. More visits like this should be scheduled by members of both the Senate and the House to get a boots on the ground perspective to the problems facing producers in the state.

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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