Joseph Sorrentino

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

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

Joseph Sorrentino May 1, 2014