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Farming Small in Big Farm Country - Ambrook Research

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With arable land increasingly unaffordable, some small producers are squeezing in between commodity growers.

With arable land increasingly unaffordable, some small producers are squeezing in between commodity growers. It’s 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Socorro, a West Texas border town wedged between Mexico and I-10 as it runs north into the white gypsum sands of New Mexico. Not a bird, bug, or lizard is stirring. Several humans, however, are sweating quietly in the shed that comprises Bodega Loya . Honeydew, honeycrisp, piel de sapo , white snow leopard — Ralph Loya, the bodega’s mustachioed proprietor, rattles off the names of melons he’s grown on his 7-acre farm out back as he pulls several from the f

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