Lawmakers Consider Disaster Relief for Colorado Farmers

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16min 31sec

As Congress reconvenes this week for a lame duck session, Colorado farmers and ranchers, reeling from prolonged drought, hope lawmakers will approve disaster aid. Efforts to do so have been scuttled so far this year. Ryan Warner talks to John Stencel, president of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, and William Travis, associate professor of geography at the University of Colorado.