New Mexico Grown Program Impact

NM Grown stakeholders are dedicated to enhancing program outcomes and effectiveness through deepening understanding of the program’s impacts, trends, strengths, and challenges. Current priority data and evaluation efforts include the NM Local Food Data Portal, regular program evaluation, and tracking key annual figures, all of which help foster learning, adapting, and making program improvements.

Program Evaluation:

Over the past few years, the NMFMA and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have collaborated on program evaluations for NM Grown. Most recently, UNM – with support from the NMFMA – conducted an evaluation of NM Grown over the FY23-FY25 period. This evaluation assessed NM Grown participation and sales data; county-level economic impacts; and Approved Supplier, buyer, and administering agencies’ perspectives and experiences.

You can read the full NM Grown FY23-FY25 Evaluation Report here: Detailed evaluation report
The UNM and NMFMA team also produced a shorter summary report and three 2-page thematic overviews:

UNM additionally led an evaluation of the FY23 NM Grown meat pilot program, which resulted in a detailed report as well as a paper in a national food systems journal:

Coakley, K., Buro, A., Sandoval, C., Crawford-Garrett, B., & Soto Mas, F. (2025). Farm-to-institution in the Southwest: An evaluation of the New Mexico Grown Meat Pilot Program. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 14(4), 93–11

NM Local Food Data Portal (LFDP)

The LFDP is a data-sharing platform providing information about NM Grown purchases and sales. The portal allows administering agencies to enter institutional buyer local food purchasing data, which is then
aggregated and linked to dashboards that produce visualizations and reports, helping to track and deepen the understanding of local food purchases and sales. Purchasing and sales data can be shown by Fiscal
Year, Administering Agency, individual buyer, food product, food production methods, and more. Purchasing and sales market patterns are also available at the state and county-levels.

As of August 2026, the NMFMA has produced the following LFDP reports:

FY26 NM Grown Local Food Data Portal Annual Report , which provides details about local purchases made by participating NM Grown K-12 school, early childcare center, senior center, and food bank buyers as well as sales made by Approved Suppliers during Fiscal Year 2026 (July 2025 – June 2026).
FY25 NM Grown Local Food Data Portal Dashboards Annual Report , which
details NM Grown purchases and sales from Fiscal Year 2025
(July 2024 through June 2025).
RF2FB Local Food Data Portal Dashboards Report , which shows buyer purchasing and supplier sales made by and to food bank buyers through the USDA-funded Regional Farm to Food Bank (RF2FB) program during the entirety of the grant project (July 2022 through September 2025).

NM Grown By The Numbers (FY21–FY25)

ASP	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
Total number of ASP Suppliers/Vendors	65	47	217	249	253	288
# on ASP Lists	65	47	85	118	112	126
# on Produce+ List	65	47	63	93	85	85
# on Meat List	0	0	28	32	33	32
# on Multiple Lists	0	0	6	7	6	7
# Other Suppliers - those selling through hubs, processors, and distributors (not on ASP lists)			132	131	141	162
% of Suppliers on ASP Lists who identify as socially-disadvantaged producers			45%	52%	55%	55%
Farm size of 0-10 acres (% on ASP Lists for Produce+ Suppliers)				70%	65%	67%
10 or fewer workers on the farm (% on ASP Lists for Produce+ Suppliers)		91%	87%	89%	95%	95%
Geographic distribution (# of counties with suppliers)	20	19	25	28	28	27

*Meat products were added starting in FY23.

NM Grown Buyers	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
Total Number of Buyers	70	114	114	127	144	152
# of Participating Administrating Agencies	2	3	4	4	4	5
# of K-12 Schools	60	59	58	64	64	67
# of Senior Centers	10	35	22	24	51	42
# of Early Childcare Centers	0	20	33	38	28	42
# of Food Bank Buyers (one buyer purchased on behalf of all food banks in NM)	0	0	1	1	1	1

*One buyer purchased on behalf of all food banks in New Mexico.

Impacts	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
Total Spending for NM Grown Purchases*	$523,000	$555,000	$1,900,000	$4,600,000	$5,400,000	$4,400,000
PED	$473,000	$400,000	$1,040,000	$1,800,000	$1,570,000	$2,800,000
ALTSD	$50,000	$150,000	$476,000	$968,000	$1,280,000	$850,000
ECECD	0	$5,000	$147,000	$262,000	$279,000	$275,000
Food Banks	0	0	$262,000	$1,610,000	$2,280,000	$484,000

*Dollar amounts per agency for FY21 and FY22 are based on dollars allocated to each agency, not exact dollars spent. Dollar amounts starting in FY23 are purchasing dollars spent and are rounded to the nearest thousand dollars.

Product Purchases / Sales	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
Produce+ (Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts, Grains, Legumes)	100%	100%	60%	63%	58%	60%
Meat (Beef, Bison, Lamb/Mutton, and Pork Products)	0	0	40%	37%	42%	40%

Meals Served	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
	173,000	184,000	638,000	1,530,000	1,790,000	1,460,000

Farmer Food Safety Trainings	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
# of trainings held	21	29	46	26	36	20
# of individuals participating in the trainings	72	126	203	144	192	101
% of participants satisfied with the trainers	95%	100%	100%	98%	98%	96%
% of participants who would recommend the training to others				95%	95%	94%
% of participants that plan to make changes based on the trainings	98%	91%	90%	92%	92%	90%
Pre-Training: % of participants that are very confident or extremely confident in completing the Risk Assessment on their own				26%	26%	N/A
Post-Training: % of participants that are very confident or extremely confident in completing the Risk Assessment on their own				86%	86%	66%

Want more info about New Mexico Grown's impact and data?

For more information on these resources, or to request additional data and information, please contact:

Bryan Crawford-Garrett
Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning Lead at the
New Mexico Farmers' Marketing Association
[email protected]