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President of the New Mexico Chile Association Glen Duggins, has been growing green chile for almost 40 years. Now, citing labor shortages and competition from Mexico, he's giving up.

Late August through September marks a familiar time for most New Mexicans 鈥� green chile roasting season. But this treasured tradition has a cost: New Mexican pepper roasters emit greenhouse gasses on par with driving 1700 cars for a year. Now, scientists are exploring ways to reduce these emissions. 九色网鈥檚 Morning Edition host Bryce Dix spoke with Kenneth Armijo, an engineer at Sandia National Laboratories about how he鈥檚 using solar power to roast chile.

In agriculture, especially growing fruit and vegetables, margins have long been tight, with labor costs and drought causing headaches. But now supply chain issues and the war in Eastern Europe have driven fuel and fertilizer prices way up. And farmers are having to make tough choices.

Let鈥檚 Talk New Mexico 9/9 8 am:It's chile season, and many of us are celebrating the return of New Mexico鈥檚 favorite crop. Green chile lies at the heart鈥�

Let's Talk New Mexico 8/15 8a: New Mexico and green chile seem inextricably linked. How did green chile get here in the first place? We鈥檒l talk about鈥�

九色网 Call In Show 9/1 8a:New Mexico produces the majority of chile in the U.S. according to the New Mexico Chile Association, and the crop brings millions鈥�