LAS CRUCES -- Small-scale farmers who directly market their produce can learn new sales techniques during the Specialty Crop Marketing Conference Feb. 3 in Santa Fe.

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LAS CRUCES -- Builders, designers and homeowners can learn more about passive solar home design during a day-long workshop Feb. 3 in Las Cruces.

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LAS CRUCES -- Builders, designers and homeowners can learn more about passive solar home design during a day-long workshop Feb. 3 in Las Cruces.

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LAS CRUCES -- The same materials that blast U.S. Navy shells from battleships to distant shores may soon make home gardens thrive. New Mexico State University scientists are working with the Navy and TPL, Inc., an advanced materials technology company, to convert propellant into garden fertilizer.

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LAS CRUCES -- A free, monthly newsletter for parents of newborns in New Mexico is enjoying a healthy growth spurt. "Baby's First Wish," developed by specialists with New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service, provides information about the first two years of a child's life.

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LAS CRUCES -- Under a cost-saving Census Bureau proposal to survey fewer farms in 1997, the number of farms counted in New Mexico would drop by nearly 60 percent, said a New Mexico State University agricultural economist.

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LAS CRUCES -- New Mexico's 1996 4-H ambassadors and diplomats were chosen during the state's 4-H Senior Leadership Retreat in Albuquerque recently.

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LAS CRUCES -- Kathy Landers began work Jan. 25 as the Extension agent on the Zuni Reservation for New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service.

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LAS CRUCES -- Cotton growers can learn more about two insect pests, the boll weevil and pink bollworm, during the first New Mexico Cotton Conference Feb. 21 at the Las Cruces Hilton.

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LAS CRUCES -- Builders, designers and homeowners can learn more about passive solar home design during a day-long workshop March 2 in Albuquerque.

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LAS CRUCES -- Homeowners can learn the basics of passive solar home design during a two-hour seminar Feb. 24 in Mountainair.

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LAS CRUCES -- Farmers and ranchers should think about taxes and personal liability when deciding whether to operate as sole proprietors, go into partnership or incorporate, a New Mexico State University farm management specialist said.

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LAS CRUCES -- Whether they make salsa or cider, jerky or jam, New Mexico food processors can learn more about food safety and creating nutrition labels for their products at a short course March 7-8 in Albuquerque.

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LAS CRUCES -- The New Mexico Crop Improvement Association and the 1517 Cotton Association recently awarded honorary lifetime memberships to Morgan Nelson of Roswell and James Ogden of Carlsbad.

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LAS CRUCES -- Robert DelCampo, a New Mexico State University social scientist, is the ultimate "family man." He has a family. He teaches courses about families. He studies families. He uses family systems theory in his research and counseling.

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LAS CRUCES -- Robert DelCampo, a New Mexico State University social scientist, is the ultimate "family man." He has a family. He teaches courses about families. He studies families. He uses family systems theory in his research and counseling.

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LAS CRUCES -- Dona Ana County Extension Homemakers Council is going a little nutty to raise money for scholarships.

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LAS CRUCES -- Homeowners can learn about harnessing the sun's power to create solar electricity during a two-hour seminar Mar. 14 in Alamogordo.

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LAS CRUCES -- New Mexicans who own or want to start home-based businesses can tune into a teleconference Mar. 19 for answers to their marketing questions.

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LAS CRUCES -- A tour of the Santa Teresa border livestock crossing facility is planned as part of the Cattle Growers' Short Course offered by New Mexico State University Mar. 28-29.

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LAS CRUCES -- In the chilly darkness just before sunrise, a sleepy-eyed Josh Adams reported for his shift on ewe patrol at New Mexico State University's animal farm. He buttoned his canvas jacket and walked down the dirt lane to the sheep barn. Soon another student arrived, checked her flashlight and moved through corral gates toward the heifer pens. At this ebony hour the only sounds on the west side of campus were the clanging of the gates and the drone of trucks on the interstate.

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LAS CRUCES -- Gardeners in search of succulent strawberries should pamper the plants, a New Mexico State University horticulturist said.

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LAS CRUCES -- New Mexico gardeners can grow red, ripe raspberries in the state's alkaline soils by selecting fall-bearing varieties, a New Mexico State University horticulturist said.

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LAS CRUCES -- Safety should come first, whether you're pruning one backyard fruit tree or a whole commercial pecan orchard.

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LAS CRUCES -- The adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is true for diseases in plants as well as people, said a New Mexico State University plant pathologist.

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LAS CRUCES -- In vegetable gardening, as in real estate, the key is location, location, location, a New Mexico State University horticulturist said.

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LAS CRUCES -- The prognosis for growing tomatoes and chile looks brighter this year than in 1995, when a plant disease ravaged many fields and gardens, a New Mexico State University plant pathologist said.

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TUCUMCARI -- PB Cattle Company of Portales received high honors with the top three bulls at the 35th annual Tucumcari Bull Test in February.

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LAS CRUCES -- Homeowners can learn about harnessing the sun's power to create solar electricity during a two-hour seminar Mar. 28 in Albuquerque.

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LAS CRUCES -- Homeowners can learn the basics of passive solar home design during a two-hour seminar April 1 in Los Alamos.

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