Does anyone have any good news?

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12. New Mexico is rolling in pecans

That's about the "best" news I read today, even though I don't eat pecans very often, except at Thanksgiving. I guess it's good news for New Mexico pecan farmers:

For months on end, the Southwest has been in the clutches of an unrelenting drought, one of the worst in New Mexico’s history. Earlier this month, the federal Agriculture Department declared six counties in the state as natural disaster areas because of the drought, including Doña Ana County, where Las Cruces sits.

While the lack of rainfall has left many ranchers and farmers reeling — and has earned the Rio Grande the nickname “Rio Sand” — pecan growers here have been able to thrive.

Thanks in part to the foresight of farmers who installed sophisticated irrigation systems and in part to the arid climate that helps ward off crop disease, the pecan business has been booming in the farmland around Las Cruces. The prosperous harvest this season has been all the more precious because pecan crops in other states — like Georgia — were ravaged by heavy rain and fungus, leading to high prices and shortages just before the Thanksgiving demand for pecan pie.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/us/new-mexico-reaps-pecan-bounty-as-other-states-struggle.html?hpw&rref=us