The stretch of the Rio Grande that flows between Las Cruces and the Texas New Mexico border irrigates a lot of huge pecan orchards. Some wonder if it’s worth it.
Pecans are BIG business and the orchards in Dona Ana county, many along highway 28 between Old Mesilla and El Paso, cover thousands and thousands of acres.
They’re also drinking up tens of thousands of gallons of water in a dry area made even dryer by drought and less water being released from the Elephant Butte reservoir…