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Green Chile Farmers Brace For Another Rough Crop
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In a year that has already seen an underwhelming winter, wildfires and an increasingly severe drought, the state’s hottest commodity green chile may be the latest fatality. Earlier this year, irrigation allotments were pushed back, and for many farmers, this summer will be one of their greatest challenges yet. 
“We started a month later with the water, and it affected the growth of our crops because it was a dry winter. Everything was just so dry,” Chris Lopez said. Lopez farms near San Antonio, a few miles south of Socorro. A dry river is nothing new for farms south of Albuquerque, as they have had to historically face periodic droughts and flood ....

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