Colorado farmers hurt by drought worry it could get worse

Uncompahgre Valley Water Tour

 

Just about all the water that feeds Arizona, Nevada and southern California originates in Colorado

By Jason Blevins and Kevin Simpson | The Colorado Sun

John Harold charges his Chevy through chest-high stalks of sweet corn.

He’s talking on his phone, scribbling notes. He’s got corn-harvesting crews spread across the Uncompahgre Valley, picking more than 100,000 ears a day of his trademarked Olathe Sweet.

The fields of onions need weeding. His beans, too. More than 100 fields of corn need picking. An 80-man crew is stuck on the Mexican border of Texas, waiting for temporary H2A work visas from an inexplicably closed embassy, costing him $2,500 a day as they linger. He’s got a contract with Kroger to deliver more than 30 million ears of his succulent corn to grocery stores across the country.

Harold has a lot going on.

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