The cookoff will feature both red and green chile products and will be from 1 to 3 p.m. The event will be judged by the New Mexico chile commissioners and the New Mexico state fair commissioners.
Samples are free to the public at the cookoff.
The chile cookoff is an opportunity to taste both red and green chile products and find out how processors use chile to create the unique product that they offer the public, Frank A. DuBois, ag secretary said. The ag courtyard is on Main Street of the fair and located at the Ag Building.