No Safety Net Maybe you've already spent half a day in your kitchen stuffing baggies with roasted chile for the long winter ahead. Or maybe you're still hoping you get this job done before it's too late. Joseph Sorrentino October 20, 2015
Farm to Hospital With a big decision on marriage equality by the United States Supreme Court on Friday, a New Mexico high court decision affecting fairness for farm workers here got lost in the shadow. Joseph Sorrentino June 28, 2015
Smells Like Compromise It took close to six years, but the dairy industry and a collection of environmental organizations have finally agreed on new regulations to detect and contain pollution from New Mexico's dairies. Joseph Sorrentino May 26, 2015
Fair-to-Farmers Brew There's nothing easy about coffee production. The small-scale growers who produce much of the available high-end, specialty coffees do all the work by hand. Joseph Sorrentino May 19, 2015
Which Milk Milk cartons and dairy co-op websites feature drawings or photographs of lovely cows standing in lush green pastures and shots of farmers, smiling, standing with an arm around a cow. Joseph Sorrentino December 16, 2014
Udder Distress Mesquite residents say they are paying the price, they say, for New Mexico to have modern, industrial dairies and for the rest of us to have fresh milk in our refrigerators. Joseph Sorrentino October 21, 2014
Moo Rules AAbout 60 percent of New Mexico's dairies are polluting groundwater, according to the state Environment Department's Groundwater Quality Bureau. Joseph Sorrentino June 24, 2014
Pickers Grinnin' New Mexico's farmworkers, who are among the lowest paid workers in the US, will earn a few more dollars a week thanks to a couple of attorneys who prodded the Department of Workforce Solutions into action. Joseph Sorrentino May 6, 2014
State Affirms Minimum Wage Applies to Farmworkers New Mexico's farmworkers, who are among the lowest paid workers in the US, will earn a few more dollars a week thanks to a couple of attorneys who prodded the Department of Workforce Solutions into action. Joseph Sorrentino May 1, 2014
Colonias on the Range A piece of land. A home to call their own. That was what they wanted. What they got was an American nightmare. Joseph Sorrentino April 29, 2014