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Getting to Our Membership List
CCGA cannot currently reach its own members, which is holding back meeting
turnout, the sponsorship campaign and every programme deadline we try to warn
growers about. Work is in progress to resolve it.
The detail is not on this page. It names people, addresses and the state of
an ongoing conversation with another organisation, and this page is readable by
anyone with the link — see the note at the foot of this portal. The working
notes, the training material and the correspondence live in the board’s
private files. Ask the office if you need them.
Ask of the Board
Grow the Facebook Reach
We are asking every director to spend twenty minutes on the association’s
Facebook account adding Colorado ag producers they know. Not a campaign —
just your own contacts, the growers and ag businesses you already deal with.
Here is why it is worth your twenty minutes. Reach is the cheapest
advocacy tool this association has. When the December 11 enrollment deadline is
about to catch somebody out, or Harvest Fuel Relief rates finally land, the number
of growers who actually see it is decided weeks earlier by how many people are
connected to us. A post reaches the people already there and nobody else. Every
name added now is a grower who gets the warning next time.
It is also what makes the sponsorships worth money. We are asking
banks, fuel and energy companies, equipment and irrigation dealers for $5,000 and
$10,000 a year. The first thing a sponsor asks is how many producers we reach. That
number is one we build ourselves, one contact at a time, and right now it is the
weakest part of the pitch.
Credentials are not on this page, and will not be. This site is served from
a public repository and this page opens to anyone with the link — a password
written here is a password published. Ask the office for the Facebook login
directly, or get it from the board’s password manager.
Two practical notes. Facebook flags accounts that are signed into from many
places at once and can lock them, so coordinate with the office rather than all
piling in on the same evening — and it is worth asking whether directors
should be added as Page roles on their own accounts instead of sharing one login,
which is both safer and what Meta’s terms expect. Add producers you
actually know. Bulk-adding strangers is the fastest way to get the account
restricted, which would cost us the reach we are trying to build.
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August 28, 2026
Action needed — Xcel/Dryland amicus. Xcel has asked the Colorado Supreme Court to overturn the Cheyenne County condemnation ruling. The amicus window will be days long and opens on the court's schedule. First step is confirming the docket and posture.
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August 28, 2026
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Ask of the Board
Record a Short Video
We are asking every director to record 60 to 90 seconds on their phone about
what Rep. Boebert’s work has meant for their operation. Not a speech. A grower
standing in their own shop or at the edge of their own field, saying plainly what
changed and what still needs doing.
This matters because the association cannot say the one thing that actually lands.
We can write that a disaster programme reached this state. Only you can say it kept
your operation whole in a year you thought it would not be. People believe a farmer
in a seed cap. They scroll past a press release.
Shooting it
- Hold the phone sideways — landscape, not upright. Vertical
video cannot be used anywhere but a phone screen.
- Light on your face, not behind you. Standing in a doorway with the
sun at your back makes you a silhouette.
- Get close, or get out of the wind. Phone microphones lose to a
breeze every time. A cab or a shop is better than an open field.
- One take is fine. A stumble reads as honest. A polished read does
not.
- Send it as-is. Do not trim it, and do not add music.
What to say, in order
- Who you are. Name, the county you farm in, and what you grow.
- What the problem was. The drought year, the input bill, the
programme that stopped at the state line.
- What she did about it. One thing, concrete. See below.
- What it meant on your place. This is the part nobody else can
say.
- What you want next. Finish the job — a permanent disaster
title, a farm bill that moves.
What she has actually done — use these
She brought growers to the table at Lamar. Rep. Boebert convened an
agriculture round table at the Cow Palace and sat through the case Colorado
producers came to make, rather than delivering remarks and leaving.
Local
coverage of the round table is the source if anyone asks.
She carried the permanent disaster title into Washington. The argument is
that disaster aid should be written into the farm bill rather than passed ad hoc
every time a year goes bad — reaching producers who take a real loss without
propping up producers who do not. That is a hard case to make in Washington, and the
4th District carries the eastern plains and most of Colorado’s corn ground, so
it is the right member to be making it.
Everything else has to come from you. Those two are what this association has
sourced and stands behind. They are deliberately the only ones listed. If she has
done something for your operation that is not on that list, that is the most
valuable thing in your video — say it, and tell the office so we can
source it and add it to the record.
Two rules, and they matter. First, do not put a number, a date or a dollar
figure in your video that you cannot point to a source for. One wrong figure gets
quoted back at us for a year. Say “it made the difference” rather than
guessing at a percentage. Second, keep the two things separate: describing what she
did in office is the public record and anyone can speak to it, while asking people
to vote for her is the board’s endorsement. The board did vote to pledge this
association’s support, so either is fair — just say which one you are
doing instead of blurring them together.
Revenue Programme
Member Packets
Paid how-to packets for the general membership. $50 each, one-time.
Status of each packet is below. Nothing here has been offered for sale yet.
1. Pass-Through Entities and Payment Limits
Draft — unverified
How USDA’s 2026 rule treats qualifying LLCs and S-corps as pass-through
entities, so the payment limit is multiplied by the number of members who are
actively engaged, rather than the single limit those entities carried before.
Covers what “actively engaged” now requires, AGI tested at member
level, and the ways a wrong structure costs eligibility.
Before it can be sold: somebody has to read 7 CFR 1400 as amended and
confirm the figures against the rule itself. The draft was written from
secondary summaries. Also open: the 2026 farm operating plan deadline
appears to have passed on September 15, so confirm with FSA what late filers
can do — that answer changes what the packet is worth.
Programme go-live
Blocked
Waiting on the written USDA ethics opinion before anything is offered for sale,
because a director sits on the State FSA Committee. Revenue going to the
association rather than to individuals is the favourable fact, and it should be
the first thing the request states.
Also undecided: how membership gets verified at checkout. Membership runs
through NCGA, so CCGA may not hold a roster of its own. Simplest start is a code
in the member newsletter.
Later packets
Ideas
ARC against PLC election mechanics. Base acre reconstitution. Disaster programme
stacking. Each one its own packet, each sourced to the rule it describes.
Why the packet text is not on this page. This site is served from a public
GitHub repository, so anything committed here can be read by anyone and stays in the
history permanently. A packet published here is a packet given away. Drafts stay off
the repo until there is something that checks who is asking — the magic-link
portal at /board/ once the Worker is deployed, or the storefront that
sells them.
Archive
Past Business
Closed items, kept because the reasoning is worth having later even when the
decision is made.
Amicus Curiae — PSCo v. Dryland Partners
Closed
A motion was before the board on whether CCGA would join as amicus curiae in
Public Service Company of Colorado v. Dryland Partners, LLC — the
Dickey case, out of the Cheyenne County condemnation ruling Xcel asked the
Colorado Supreme Court to overturn. The decision window has passed and the item
is closed.
The outcome is not recorded on this site. Whatever the board decided
lives in the minutes, which is where it belongs — we are not going to
write a result here that nobody can check.
The action plan and the background are kept as
they were, because the analysis of what an amicus brief can and cannot do is
the part worth re-reading next time something like this comes up.
Action Items
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