LAS CRUCES, N.M. – A New Mexico rancher says onions intended as supplemental feed for his cattle were plundered after a person discovered the piles and posted about it on social media.
The Las Cruces Sun-News reports a person had stumbled across the more than 30,000 pounds of onions in a desert area west of Las Cruces and had assumed the vegetables were dumped as waste.
The person posted to social media encouraging other area residents to go grab some.
Rancher James Montoya says the onions were placed on land that he leases from the state. He says some people were filling the beds of pickup trucks with onions to haul away.
Montoya says he moved the remaining onions Monday to an undisclosed location.
