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Assemblyman Stephen Hawley, a Republican from Western New York, comes from a long line of farmers. He predicts the new requirements will be too onerous and that farms will close.
“If you look at the decline in milk consumption in our schools over the past nine years as a result of that misguided legislation, it actually tracks with the financial decline within the dairy industry.”
“To all the workers – this is a tool for you that you can use this to have a voice, to improve your working conditions, to fight against wage theft, bad housing, discrimination in the workplace. This is something you can use to change that.”
“China (has) used the American consumer and producer for many years by creating barriers to letting our products in their country, while they want to overwhelm us with their products.”
“If a beekeeper is able to take a honeybee swarm, they can care for them and manage them if they need it, instead of having these colonies kind of inhabit people’s homes.”
The New York Farm Bureau said farmers need more workers and it wants the President to consider an expansion of a visa program.
The Tioga Arts & Agriculture Trail is a free, countywide, self-guided tour through the region’s finest art studios, galleries, and farmland on May 11 + 12 from 10 am – 5 pm. Tioga County is the Gateway to the Finger Lakes and the perfect home base to explore the region. With affordable lodging, dining and shopping, you can stretch your budget while enjoying rural, authentic, small-town charms of the county and be within a short drive of many of the Finger Lake region’s premier attractions. To plan your trail and get details, go to www.tiogaartsandagtrail.org.
“One of the reasons why young people aren’t going into it (farming) is, they can’t make a dollar, can’t make a living.”
“We haven’t really prioritized them as the workforce and the backbone of the agricultural industry that they are.”
The spotted lanternfly eats away at the bark of trees. It’s a threat to some commercial crops that are big in New York like grapes and apples.