Business & Agriculture

Business feature: Chamber, CIDC team up to help businesses

By Eric Butler: Freedom New Mexico

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Gene Hendrick, manager of the recently-formed Clovis Business Incubator, likes to use an analogy when trying to explain the name of his organization. “When I was growing up, everybody had an incubator because they’d raise their own chickens,”... Full story

Dairy Fest draws more than 9,000

By Liliana Castillo: CNJ staff writer

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When most Dairy Fest fans walked up on Ryan White’s tent Saturday, they either laughed or stopped for a photograph with the sign: “Smells like poo...it grew.” White’s job at Dairy Fest is to teach people about manure, and it’s... Full story

Tower Twin theater closing

By Clarence Plank: Freedom New Mexico

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It’s curtains today for the Tower Twin Theatre. After years of entertaining Portales residents, the city’s only movie theater is closing its doors due to cooling troubles. Russell Allen, vice president of operations for Allen Theatres and... Full story

Group testing home energy measurement method

By Eric Butler: Freedom New Mexico

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Current and past officials of the New Mexico Home Builders Association are pretty sure standards for energy efficiency will soon be in place for new homes. On Tuesday in Clovis, organization members believed they took a collective step toward having... Full story

Clovis business owner named to livestock marketing board

CNJ staff

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Charles Rogers of Clovis has been elected to the Livestock Marketing Association board of directors for a two-year term, according to a news release. Rogers spent 22 years at the Clovis Livestock Auction, the last 15 as owner and general manager. Prior... Full story

Business feature: State agency helps local man open machine shop

By Sharna Johnson: CNJ staff writer

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He believes eventually he would have had his machine shop going on his own. But Jim Perry says help from the New Mexico Division of Vocational Rehabilitation made his dream happen a lot sooner. Perry, 51, said food allergies ended his Air Force career... Full story

Residential building permits in May highest since start of 2008

Freedom New Mexico

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If you file, they will come. At least, that appears to be the indication from recent housing permits filed to the city. According to a monthly building permits report filed with the city, there were 23 permit applications for new residential buildings... Full story

ACI luncheon on Thursday

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The Association of Commerce and Industry will hold a luncheon at noon Thursday featuring ACI President Beverlee McClure and local state legislators. The luncheon is set to be held at the Clovis Civic Center and hosted by ACI, the Clovis Rotary Club and... Full story

Out of the office and into the fields

Ag service conducting crop survey

By Eric Butler: PNT staff writer

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There’s no shortage of businesses that have field offices. But, right now, the National Agricultural Statistics Service in Las Cruces is literally sending their officers into the field — crop fields across eastern New Mexico. They want to... Full story

Ag sense: Sorghum-based intercropping system viable option

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The increasing demand for good quality forages by the dairy industry, and the declining water resources, are threatening the sustainability of highly productive irrigated agriculture in the southern High Plains. Corn and alfalfa are the predominant forages... Full story

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