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Buying and drying: water lessons from Crowley County

In Otero County, the corn is knee-high, the famous Rocky Ford cantaloupes are almost ready to pick and the onions, tomatoes, sugar beets and...

Otero County meloneers lament immigration stalemate

'In our area, there isn’t a big enough workforce pool to draw from. H-2A is a very restricted system with a lot of red tape. It's not a great program but we have no choice.'