ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – As New Mexico’s worker shortage continues, some business owners are adapting, including at some of the state’s vineyards. They’ve rebounded from the drought, but as a 5th-generation farmer told KOB 4, the way some operate may have changed forever.
New Mexico’s Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development office has launched a new grant program that offers opportunities for economic growth for rural New Mexicans. The grant application process opened earlier this week.
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement in support of the President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will nominate Xochitl Torres Small to serve as the Undersecretary for Rural Development in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Torres Small, who is from Las Cruces, New Mexico, previously served as
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — New Mexico’s chile is officially getting launched into space. KOAT told in the past that the project was in the works, but SpaceX confirmed that the chile will be shot up to space on Thursday as part of a supply mission from the Kennedy Space Center in
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — More than two dozen farms in southern New Mexico have applied for a program that will pay them not to plant their fields as water managers look for new ways to stretch resources in the drought-stricken state.
El Paso Matters CEO Bob Moore has an update on the ongoing effort to vaccinate farm workers, coverage on the upcoming El Paso ISD School Board election and news of help for an often overlooked group of people struggling with food insecurity.
Some farmers say they are going to farm A record drought season in New Mexico has some farmers worried about how they are going to get produce in the grocery store. It has prompted the state’s engineer to issue a report telling farmers not to farm unless they “absolutely need
A research team from the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at New Mexico State University is working in partnership with colleagues from Texas A&M AgriLife Research to study issues affecting pepper production in the Southwest.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Agriculture has been hit hard this year by the COVID-19 pandemic. Glen Duggins, a chile farmer in Lemitar, says workers are hard to find right now and crops are hard to sell. Right now he has only half the crew he had last year.
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The New Mexico Department of Agriculture has identified unsolicited foreign seeds that have been mailed to residents. NMDA reports that starting on July 24 it began receiving reports of the mailed seeds that were not clearly labeled as seeds.
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