Skip to content
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Passport
  • Support WSKG
Donate
  • Donate
  • logo
  • logo
  • Donate
  • Home
  • News
  • TV
  • Your Radio
  • Schedules
  • Events
  • Arts
  • Education
  • History
  • Science
  • Donate
  • More
    • About
    • Contact Us
    • Passport
    • Support WSKG

WSKG - Local news and arts, broadcasting NPR radio and PBS TV.

WSKG thanks our sponsors...
  • Donate your vehicle to support WSKG

WSKG (https://wskg.org/tag/dairy/)

  • Donate
  • Home
  • News
  • TV
  • Your Radio
  • Schedules
  • Events
  • Arts
  • Education
  • History
  • Science
Listen Live WSKG
Listen Live WSKG Classical

Watch Live WSKG TV
Watch Live PBS Kids
Learn at Home
Covid-19 information
Subscribe

dairy

Cortland Groups Plan Drive-Thru Dairy Giveaway

By Celia Clarke | May 4, 2020

“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

By Karen DeWitt | April 28, 2020

“It’s very frustrating. We have excess milk but we can’t get it to people who are in need at this time.”

Featured in Category

Farmers Have Too Much Food to Sell. New York Might Buy It

By Dan Clark | April 27, 2020

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.

App NEWS

Dairy Industry Upended By COVID-19

By Jillian Forstadt | April 13, 2020

“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

By Katie Meyer | January 8, 2020

Pennsylvania’s Agriculture Secretary says several grant recipients were taken by surprise that they had to pay contracted workers prevailing wages.

App NEWS

Cortland County Dairy Farm Receives Environmental Award

By Sarah Gager | August 8, 2019

Whey Street Dairy received the 2019 State Agricultural Environmental Management Award.

Anthony Brindisi

Ag Secretary Visit Allows Congressman To Highlight Damage Done By Farm Tariffs

By Gabe Altieri | May 29, 2019

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is touring upstate New York on Wednesday.

agriculture

Farmers Find Little Help In Trump’s New Immigration Plan

By Celia Clarke | May 17, 2019

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

By Katie Meyer | February 14, 2019

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

By NPR News | January 3, 2019

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

By Tom Magnarelli | December 26, 2018

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.

agriculture

Farm Bill Includes Some Relief For Struggling New York Dairy Farms

By Tom Magnarelli | December 17, 2018

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.

agricultural trade

Economist Says Cutting Trade Deals With China, Mexico More Important To Region’s Dairy Farmers

By Celia Clarke | October 2, 2018

“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.”

agriculture

NY Dairy Farmers To Ag Secretary: ‘We Go To Work Every Day Losing Money’

By Tom Magnarelli | August 24, 2018

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.

WSKG thanks our sponsors...

About WSKG

WSKG connects you to local and global news and the arts online, on the radio, and on TV. NPR and PBS affiliate.

Contact Us

email: WSKGcomment@wskg.org

phone: 607.729.0100

address: 601 Gates Road, Vestal, NY 13850

DONATE

Pay an underwriting invoice

  • WSKG
  • Arts
  • Education
  • Science
  • News
  • Your Radio
  • Schedule
  • TV
  • About
  • WSKG Staff
  • Contact Us
  • Jobs
  • Public Reports & Policies
  • Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
  • Protect My Public Media
FCC PUBLIC FILES
WSKG-FM
WSQX-FM
WSQG-FM
WSQE
WSQA
WSQC-FM
WSQN
WSKG-TV
WSKA
Disabled and need assistance with the online FCC public file?
Contact Gregory Keeler
WSKG
601 Gates Road
Vestal, New York 13850
607-729-0100
gkeeler@wskg.org

Stay Connected

Like Us on FacebookFollow Us on TwitterFollow Us on YouTubeFollow Us on InstagramSubscribe via RSS

© Copyright 2021, WSKG

Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Back to top ↑

Change Location
To find awesome listings near you!