In business since 1909, Red Mountain Ranches was originally a cattle, hog, fruit, berry, and tomato operation. The Morris Family acquired the business in the 1950s and currently the crops raised are primarily apples and some peaches, along with apple cider production.  At the present time, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th generations of both the Morris and Hendrickson Families all work together through Red Mountain Ranches.

Cornelius and Lillie Hendrickson moved to the farm in 1918 and purchased it in 1921, and the Hendrickson Family has continued to farm the land through five generations. They raise apples, peaches, and pasture.

In 1914, George Gueck purchased land near Haxtun to begin his agricultural operation in Colorado. He purchased the current farm in 1923, with his son Reece operating a custom corn shelling business as well as raising cattle, hogs, dairy cows, chickens, and producing alfalfa, corn, milo, and wheat. Reece Gueck was the first farmer to drill an irrigation well in western Phillips County in 1950. Mark and Susan Gueck currently reside on and operate the farm, and their children represent the fifth generation on the Gueck Farm.

The Great Western Sugar Company was founded in the early 20th century by Charles Boettcher and partners, pioneering the sugar beet industry in northern Colorado. The first sugar mill was built in Loveland in 1901, and the company expanded throughout northern Colorado. In 2002, Western Sugar Cooperative finalized the purchase of Western Sugar.  Western Sugar Cooperative now has over 800 grower/owners, plants over 100,000 acres of sugar beets and produces roughly 10 million hundred weights of locally grown sugar per year.

Laura and Howard Garwood and their children set out from Kansas to find a new place to live. They made it all the way to California and then headed back to Colorado. They proved up on their homestead in 1923, and the farm has remained in the Garwood Family ever since.

In 1907, Frank and Maggie Burns sold their Iowa land, loaded the family and belongings in a railroad car and made the move to Grand Junction to grow peaches.  Their daughter, Lois, remembered that not a sprig of grass was on the land when the trees were planted.  In 1918, Lois married Nelson Newton Phillips and they bought a fifteen acre pear orchard.  That orchard increased in acreage, included peaches, pears and apples and stayed in the family until the 1990's.  By the 1980’s, Grand Junction was growing and the farm was engulfed by development.  The third generati

John Daniel Sr., a Czechoslovakian immigrant, purchased 160 acres in Burlington in 1905 to homestead. Wheat has been the main crop through the years, and the land is currently farmed by Donald Raymond Daniel, Glenda Kay Daniel, their children, and grandchildren, who represent the 6th Daniel generation on the farm.

In 1923, Edward R. and Mary Christensen leased and eventually purchased a farmstead in Morgan County, originally raising sheep and sugar beets, then transitioning to corn and cattle.  Since the 1990s the ranch has marketed custom bulk natural beef to consumers and their online boxed beef business launched in 2017 as the third generation of family members has joined to expand the work of the ranch.

Bunten Orchard is in Fremont County, where it has been operated since 1910 by the Hiltman, Bunten, and Johnson families. Originally a cherry orchard with some apple trees, the farm transitioned to focus more on apples, and more recently, hay fields.

Russian-German immigrant David Amen and his wife Anna established the farm in 1915. The diversified irrigated farm and ranch began with raising Hereford cows, Holstein milk cows, chickens, alfalfa, corn, and sugar beets. Their son Walter remained and the farm and continued to expand the operation.  Today, four generations, including Walter, his son, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, continue working on the farm as a Registered Angus and Lim-Flex Seedstock operation.