How Libby Bigler is elevating beef quality across Colorado

When your job title is Colorado Beef Quality Assurance Coordinator, an outside observer would likely imagine that you took a fairly predictable path to that assignment. Rancher’s kid. Small town. 4-H participant. Animal lover. And in this state, Colorado State University alumnus. Libby Bigler certainly checks most of those boxes. She grew up in tiny Elbert, an unincorporated town about 56 miles southeast of Denver. She was one of 20 in her graduating class at Elbert High School, and an active...