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LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences will host its annual fruit grower workshop virtually from 9 a.m. to noon on March 11-12. The workshop, which will be presented on Zoom, is free but pre-registration is required.
To receive the Zoom information, register at https://alcaldesc.nmsu.edu/.
Topics for the two-day workshop include pollinator conservation in orchards, an update on jujube cultivar trials, challenges of stone fruit production in northern New Mexico, protecting fruit trees from wildlife and fruit predators and increasing fruit quality and reducing disorders through nutrient management in apples along with an opportunity to meet the extension agents.
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The mayordomo of Nambe Narciso Quintana walks over a gate on the acequia in April. The New Mexico Acequia Association estimates that 640 small-scale irrigation systems exist throughout the state. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
ALCALDE – Culture and community are as much a part of the centuries-old traditional irrigation systems that some New Mexicans rely on as hydrology, according to researchers at the state’s two largest universities and Sandia National Laboratories.
They made public their findings earlier this month. Funded by a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the decadelong effort centered on three acequia systems in northern New Mexico – El Rito, Rio Hondo and Alcalde.
Culture and community are as much a part of the centuries-old traditional irrigation systems that some New Mexicans rely on as hydrology, according to researchers at the state s two largest