So with the price of food soaring, are New Mexico farmers feeling flush? Don't bet on it, reports Gwyneth Doland at the Independent:

Just as the price of fuel burns urban commuters, the cost of diesel, natural gas and propane hurts farmers, who use fuel to run their equipment. “Fuel is just killing us,” Woods says. “Every time I fill up one of my big tractors it’s $1,000.” So instead of using the tractors for weeding, he’s using chemicals to keep weeds down (since applying herbicides requires fewer passes across the field and uses less fuel with each pass). Later in the season, when the fields go fallow, he’ll turn out cattle to graze the fields clean, instead of using equipment.

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