agriculture

The Broome-Tioga Farm-to-School program, works to connect schools with farmers and get more locally grown food in school lunches. It's one of a handful of farm-to-school programs across the state awarded a total of $1.5 million in funding.

“To drop the threshold to 40 hours over the next decade will be extremely difficult for farmers and farmworkers alike to absorb."

While lanternflies can stress trees, it appears they only kill grapevines and tree of heaven, also an invasive species, directly by feeding on them.

Agriculture is one of biggest sectors of New York State’s economy. Yet people of color are largely left out of it.

Possessing a voracious appetite, the biggest concerns with the spotted lanternfly are their impacts on fruit trees, maples, and especially on vineyards.

“A good farmers market is like a weekly fair or festival. People are wanting that back, but it won’t be the same.”

"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."

“That’s awful, awful, heart breaking when you watch your milk go down the drain when it’s a perfectly good, sellable product,”

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.

DEP's Climate Change Impact Assessment report focuses on livestock and watershed