Keenesburg
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Sep 4, 2026
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We are staying on top of a devastating accident at a Colorado dairy farm.
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Five men and a high school student were found dead in an enclosed space at Prospect Valley Dairy near Keensburg.
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Calls from first responders and early reports from the coroner's office suggest they died of exposure to a highly toxic gas created by decomposing manure.
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Tragedy at the dairy left this community shaken.
Chanda Thomas WhitfieldHOST
Read our ongoing coverage on our website, CPR.org. On that note, Colorado's farmers, especially grain farmers, are having one of their hardest seasons in recent memory.
Chanda Thomas WhitfieldHOST
Mark Arnish grows a mix of grains in Keensburg on the plains northeast of Denver.
Chanda Thomas WhitfieldHOST
Well, at least most year he does.
Mark ArnishSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We've run out of irrigation water right at the very end of April, and that caused us not to plant any spring crops this year on our farm.
Bazi KananiHOST
Colorado's farmers, especially grain farmers, are having one of their hardest seasons in living memory.
Bazi KananiHOST
Mark Arnish grows a mix of grains in Keensburg on the plains northeast of Denver.
Bazi KananiHOST
At least most years he does.
Mark ArnishSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We've run out of irrigation water right at the very end of April, and that caused us not to plant any spring crops this year on our farm.
Ben MollineGUEST
It was developed in the 1970s in response to the energy crisis when PSCO, or Xcel today, came to us and said that there was potential problems about providing energy to us year-round.
Ryan WarnerHOST
This is Ben Molline, present-day general manager of Coors Energy Company, addressing a small crowd in remote Weld County near Keenesburg this month.
Ben MollineGUEST
And so the Coors family and the Coors brewery very quickly went out and started finding alternate forms of energy, and within that, we had a lot of gas and oil facilities across the state, and we also developed a coal mine, which is what Keenesburg used to be.
Ben MollineGUEST
We bought the property in the '80s, started producing coal in '82, and then the coal stopped in the end of '80s.
Ben MollineGUEST
We were finding better sources of coal elsewhere away from here.
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Rachel SchneiderGUEST
Thank you for being here.
Ryan WarnerHOST
Rachel Schneider leads sustainability at Molson Coors.
Ryan WarnerHOST
We met at the brewery's new solar farm in Keenesburg.