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	EQIP|WHIP FY 2008 Schedule to be Announced
	Grainey, Willett Capture National USDA Award
	Warm Pecan Pie has Roots in Deming
	Old Ways Die Hard
	Sometimes it Takes Tweaking

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EQIP|WHIP FY2008 Schedule to be Announced

Local Work Group/Stakeholder meetings are currently underway for the FY2008 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP).  A news release is due out September 28, 2007 announcing the program due dates, priorities, ranking process, and cost-share rates.

Grainey, Willett Capture National USDA Award

NRCS New Mexico staff again has gained national recognition for outstanding performance.  Joe Grainey, contract specialist, and Sara Willett, purchasing agent, garnered an overall U.S. Department of Agriculture, Group Special Achievement Award for Small Business Programs.  Grainey and Willett received the recognition for diligently making certain that each procurement action is reviewed for potential set-asides for small, disadvantage, women-owned, and service-disabled veteran owned businesses.  The June-July issue of the Natural Resources Reporter had reported that Gregory Fenchel, Los Lunas Plant Materials Center manager, had been named the Plant Materials Outstanding Employee for 2006 by NRCS’s national headquarters.

Warm Pecan Pie has Roots in Deming

When you are sitting around the kitchen table after supper immersed in that delectable piece of warm pecan pie dripping with melting ice cream, think of Rick Holdridge.
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Old Ways Die Hard

Old ways die hard, as the Los Lunas Plant Materials Center staff is finding as it is spreading the word about new riparian restoration technology that runs counter to traditional wisdom.  There are times successfully communicating a message is difficult.  But it is critical that the Plant Materials Center experts who have the day-to-day experience of being in the bosque be heard, if sound riparian restoration is to be realized on a large scale.
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Sometimes it Takes Tweaking

As New Mexico’s innovative farmers and ranchers seek new and better ways to conserve our natural resources, resounding successes do not always happen the first time.  Sometimes it takes tweaking, and that is one story about rubberized ditch liner technology. For the full story (308 KB)