Patricia Marquez Knighten has been named director of Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State Universitys Innovation Commercialization, and will work to expand and enhance the work of taking research from NMSUs faculty, staff and students to a global market. Patricia Marquez Knighten has been named director of Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State Universitys Innovation Commercialization, and will work to expand and enhance the work of taking research from NMSUs faculty, staff and students to a global market. (Courtesy photo)
Assembling a diverse team during the early stages of development yields the best opportunities to tailor innovations to serve both scholarly and commercial interest, said Kathryn Hansen, Arrowhead Center director.
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Everything looks the same on either side of the Texas-New Mexico border in the great oil patch of the Permian Basin. There are the pump jacks scattered across the plains, nodding up and down with metronomic regularity. There are the brown highway signs alerting travelers to historical markers tucked away in the nearby scrub. There are the frequent memorials of another sort, to the victims of vehicle accidents. And there are the astonishingly deluxe high school football stadiums. This is, after all, the region that produced “Friday Night Lights.”
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Chile at Sichler Farms Produce in Los Lunas. Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal
For chiles, 2020 wasn’t all bad as New Mexico farmers reported increased production and yield levels for the state’s most famous crop despite pressures related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Numbers released Thursday by the U.S. Agriculture Department’s statistics service show 68,000 tons of red and green chile were produced last year. That’s an 8% increase over the previous year. The value of the crop also increased to nearly $52 million.
“Chile today and hot tamale! That’s the weather forecast,” joked Jeff Witte, head of the New Mexico Agriculture Department.