Lots of reasons, but one of the big ones is a year round growing season. It’s never so cold that you can’t grow, so over the course of a year the same field ma

Lots of reasons, but one of the big ones is a year round growing season. It’s never so cold that you can’t grow, so over the course of a year the same field may host four or five crops. The other big ones is that it started when there was a reasonable flow of water, and not very many competing interests. I love a couple miles from the Rio Grande, which in the past was wet year round, but now it has water maybe 5% of the time (it was stored in Elephant Butte lake, but now that’s down to historically low levers like everything else in the southwest.