New Mexico State University Expands Pecan Research as Region Expands Production
Pecans, like people, are moving to the Southwest. According to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, New Mexico and Arizona accounted for a mere 4 percent of U.S. pecan production in the mid-1970s. As a result of steady growth in production, the percentage had blossomed to more than 28 percent a third of a century...
Read moreOptimism Pervades New Mexico Pecan Growers’ Field Day 2010
New Mexico State University’s Leyendecker Plant Science Center in Las Cruces was the setting for the 2010 New Mexico Pecan Growers’ Field Day on Nov. 4. The annual conference was organized by the New Mexico Pecan Growers and co-sponsored by NMSU’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences; the New Mexico Department of Agriculture; and...
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