Like others in the agriculture sector, a major barrier to the wine industry is a lack of hands to pick grapes. There just aren’t enough people signing up to do the work.So farmers have turned to machines.
New Mexico health officials have confirmed this year’s first West Nile infection — a potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus.
HATCH — Under the relentless heat of a beaming sun, around a dozen workers wearing long-sleeve shirts and straw hats slowly moved from plant to plant in a chile field, plucking red pepper by red pepper to fill burlap bags with chiles.
HATCH — One-year-old Merced Alvarez will grow up in the chile fields.
New Mexico is relying on a new Environmental Protection Agency rule to pursue the Department of Defense for the costs of cleaning up PFAS contamination near several military installations and for damages from contamination.
New Mexico is joining a national water conservation partnership.
After several years, and a piece of federal legislation, the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inked a deal Wednesday to allow for more flexibility for water storage on the Rio Grande.
New Mexico is getting $14.7 million in federal dollars for five water projects to address drought, part of $522 million in drought funding for 57 projects across the western United States that Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior Laura Dan…
“When we invest in the Rio Grande, we invest in people, wildlife, in economies and in our future,” said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.
Much of New Mexico’s snowpack melted a week or two earlier than average this year.
