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Gillibrand Conducts Hearings This Week On Dairy Pricing
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“98% of all farms in New York are family owned. I think in order to keep that number so high…the milk prices definitely need to go up.”
Cortland Groups Plan Drive-Thru Dairy Giveaway
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“The plan is for us to continue to get dairy into the county through the food pantries and other food programs as long as the donations keep flowing.”
Food and Farms
New York State Will Coordinate New Markets For Dairy Farmers
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“It’s very frustrating. We have excess milk but we can’t get it to people who are in need at this time.”
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Farmers Have Too Much Food to Sell. New York Might Buy It
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The New York Farm Bureau has asked the state, in recent days, to ramp up testing for COVID-19 in rural areas of the state, particularly at farms.
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Dairy Industry Upended By COVID-19
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“Right now, we are dumping on average one trailer load a day.”
Food and Farms
Some PA Farmers Have Trouble Budgeting Money From New State Grant
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Pennsylvania’s Agriculture Secretary says several grant recipients were taken by surprise that they had to pay contracted workers prevailing wages.
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Cortland County Dairy Farm Receives Environmental Award
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Whey Street Dairy received the 2019 State Agricultural Environmental Management Award.
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Ag Secretary Visit Allows Congressman To Highlight Damage Done By Farm Tariffs
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is touring upstate New York on Wednesday.
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Farmers Find Little Help In Trump’s New Immigration Plan
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The New York Farm Bureau said farmers need more workers and it wants the President to consider an expansion of a visa program.
Food and Farms
Pennsylvania ‘Fake Milk’ Concerns Get A (Minor) Spotlight In DC
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Pennsylvania’s dairy industry woes are finding their way to a national stage. Milk sales are down. And in Pennsylvania and other major dairy states, the situation is getting difficult for farmers.
Pennsylvania Makes A Case For Dairy With A Huge Butter Sculpture
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The annual unveiling on Thursday doubled as an opportunity for state officials to plug milk and other products of the struggling dairy industry.
Food and Farms
Proposed Changes To Military Milk Deliveries Could Hurt New York’s Dairy Industry
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A new federal proposal would change the way New York’s military installations get milk, and could hurt local dairy farmers. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) is trying to stop it.
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Farm Bill Includes Some Relief For Struggling New York Dairy Farms
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President Donald Trump this week is expected to sign the 2018 Farm Bill that passed Congress last week. The bill includes some relief for struggling dairy farmers.
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Economist Says Cutting Trade Deals With China, Mexico More Important To Region’s Dairy Farmers
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“It’s way, way more important what we do with Mexico and China and what our general trade posture is,” he said. “Trade is important to us, but trade with Canada is not the biggest worrier.”
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NY Dairy Farmers To Ag Secretary: ‘We Go To Work Every Day Losing Money’
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SYRACUSE, NY (WRVO) – Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-New Hartford) hosted U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue in Cortland to hear the concerns of dairy farmers in the region. Dairy farmers told Perdue about the dire situation the industry is facing.