Trial of green chili harvester set for fall

I am all for automated harvesting.

Less call for illegals to be in the area.

More mechanization and less criminals, I always say.

Is this not New Mexico anymore? How on earth did the writer of this article get away with spelling our state vegetable with an "i"?

Chile wrote:

Is this not New Mexico anymore? How on earth did the writer of this article get away with spelling our state vegetable with an "i"?

Because it was written for, and edited by, the LC Sun News. Misspelling chile is the least of their worries.

OMG NM chile is AWESOME!! I have never had anything so good on everything I like to eat. It makes everything I love to eat better. I'm really into exercise and fitness and I work out every day and stay in great shape. Your chile is so tasty and makes healthy food taste so much better when added. You need to do whatever it takes to keep it going and make it available and at a reasonable price for all of us across the country.

There's been reports, buried deep inside the L. C. Sun News and Deming Headlight, that some southern NM chili growers have stopped planting it on this side of the borders. Instead, they lease fields in Old Mexico, and plant/harvest it down there. The growers claim that the price of the labor was getting too expensive in the U. S., and that mechanical harvesting equipment would also be too expensive - if it ever got into production.

I really doubt mechanical chili harvesting will ever pay off in New Mexico, given the regressive attitudes of the growers on this side of the border. With luck, though, the equipment can be made in the U. S. and exported cheaply to more progressive societies.... >;-]

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"Chile" or "chili"? The topix spell checker tells me "chile" is misspelled, but will accept chili.

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