Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Government To Give Nearly $200 Million to Mexican Ranchers
The government will provide 2.46 billion pesos ($199 million) in assistance to ranchers affected by droughts and freezes in Mexico, Agriculture and Ranching Secretary Enrique Martinez y Martinez said. The assistance will go to ranchers in several states, Martinez said
in an address at the 77th National Ranching Organizations Assembly. Some of the funds will be used to guarantee loans totaling
5.7 billion pesos ($462 million), increasing total resources available
for ranchers to 8.16 billion pesos ($662 million), the agriculture
secretary said...more
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