Santa Fe National Forest fire managers were notified of a new wildfire start on Sunday, May 19, around noon in the Coyote Ranger District. The Indios fire is located about 7 miles north of the village of Coyote, N.M within the Chama River Canyon Wilderness.
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$650,000 investment to breed green chile peppers for mechanical harvesting
Allen Van Deynze, professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis, has received an investment of $650,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, or NIFA, for a project that will develop commercially competitive green chile peppers, like jalapeños, that are amenable to mechanical harvesting. The funding is part of NIFA’s Plant Breeding for Agricultural Production, with the project specifically falling under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative priority area.
In the three-year project, Van Denzye will be joined by UC Davis colleagues Theresa Hill, senior research associate in the Van Deynze Research Team, and Robert Gilbertson, a professor in the Department of Plant Pathology. New Mexico State University Vegetable Specialist Stephanie Walker, who specializes in the genetics and breeding of chile peppers, will assis