Yuma County

My name's Scott Stinnett, CSU Extension specialist here in Kit Carson County in the Burlington, Colorado office.

And again, with me is my colleague Travis Taylor from the Yuma County office located in Wray, Colorado.

Travis, it's weaning time, which means it's a lot of stress on our calves.

Let's talk today about some ways that maybe we can reduce and relieve a little bit of stress on those calves during weaning time.

Any final thoughts you wanna throw out there on, on the subject or review what we've gone over?

I think it's important, visit with your veterinarian, visit with your nutritionist.

As always, if you have questions, you can reach out to either of us on this podcast, and I'm in the Yuma County office, and you can reach me by email at travis.taylor@colostate.edu or call the office at 970-332-4151.

And you can get a hold of me, Scott, here in the Kit Carson County office in Burlington, Colorado.

After I started that, I went off to college and I came back and was looking for another thing to add to the repertoire.

And so I started with Yuma County Economic Development as their executive director.

I'm sorry, and how old were you when you got that job? I just want to...

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That's why I reopened that and have, you know, made it the community's vision.

One specific story that I project that I love so dearly that we did at the space was we partnered with Ray Cares, which is a youth coalition that helps get youth that could be at risk youth into leadership positions and helping them be more civically engaged and help their children Peers do really amazing things.

And so we partnered with them to create blankets for youth served by Sarah House, which is an advocacy center in our Yuma-Ray area, our Yuma County area.

And so we got together and made those blankets.

They're like, "Okay, yeah, I've been voting blue, but this ain't working, right? You know, I'm, I'm starting to feel this." And, and so, you know, it's a combination of getting out there physically and I've, I've, you know, and Victor's done a fair amount of it, but since I've been a part of the team, I, I've been traveling, you know, the, the perimeter of the state.

I've had a lot of conversations in places like Yuma County, Kit Carson County, uh, Bent County.

You know, I've been, a couple of trips out to, you know, Durango, Ouray, uh, and then of course up in, uh, Mesa County and that kind of thing.

And really, like, getting...

And so, you know, it, it's hard for anybody to convince me or anybody else, particularly out there... 'Cause I was like, "Okay, well, who's, who's on your city council," right? You know, it's like, "Is it all Democrats? Did you vote for these people? Do you know them?" It's like, yeah, you know.

I, I, I saw...

I asked the same question in Yuma County, completely red city council.

Uh, and they're like, "Actually, we're, we're good." Like, like nobody complained about property tax out there, and I was digging.

"... for it in the soil bank.

That could've been ours." So the next big thing that hit Yuma County, Colorado, was irrigation in the '60s and '70s.

And, you know, a lot of people took very good farm ground and turned it into incredibly productive irrigated ground.

Unfortunately, in our area, they took a lot of marginal ground, sand hill type stuff that's, you know, the terrain wasn't for it.

The school board's resolution set the debt to occur only if the school district receives a best grant which exceeds $42 million in awarded best grant funds, which are not required to be repaid.

The measure passed 782 to 712 across Phillips, Seshwick, and Yuma counties, according to Phillips County's certified abstract.

The CDE's 2026-27 list of recommended best projects ranks the Holyoke Project third, with a state grant of $37,511,924.54 and a district contribution of $14,840,000 toward a $52,351,924.54 total.

The district's application for a project that would replace the 1954 Holyoke Elementary lists a 28.35% district match against a CDE minimum of 36% and states that a waiver letter is required.

My name's Scott Stinnett, CSU Extension specialist here in the Kit Carson County office serving the Golden Plains area.

And with me today again is my colleague Travis Taylor from the Yuma County office up in Wray, Colorado.

And Travis, it's weaning time, and with weaning time it's also maybe time to make some decisions on maybe which heifers producers wanna retain to start replacing or rebuilding our cattle herd.

Scott, it's that time of year where we're all gathering cattle, and we're making decisions on what we're going to do with them, whether they're going to go to the sale barn, whether we're going to retain ownership.

First, a bird was seen in Maricopa County, Arizona, where it represented a first for that state.

Not long after, one was seen in Yuma County, Colorado, also a first.

And then, for good measure, a third individual in Pinellas County, Florida, which represented Florida's fifth.

Florida being an oddball for so many reasons, though, to the previous point, this was the second time piratic flycatcher has been seen in Pinellas County, the last only two years ago.