Agriculture

GREAT VALLEY — Pumpkinville creates memories — one after another, year after year. Nearly halfway through the 2023 season, owners Dan and Diane Pawlow...

ALBANY (TNS) — A group of farm owners escalated their concerns that the state's enforcement of new union standards for laborers violate their constitu...

PORTLAND — What’s contained in the 2023 Farm Bill was on the minds of more than 120 people who attended a House Agriculture Committee listening sessio...

DUNKIRK — State Sen. George Borrello and other lawmakers are urging the governor to step in and “save” Nourish NY from bureaucratic mismanagement, whi...

BUFFALO — Students from the recently founded Genesee Valley Central School FFA attended the 98th New York State FFA Convention in Buffalo May 18-20. K...

WEST VALLEY — A full house of 360 farmers and their neighbors met at the West Valley Fire Hall Wednesday night to honor Cattaraugus County farmers at ...

EAST OTTO — Spring is here, the sap is running and the evaporator at Ulinger’s Maple Farm, in East Otto, is boiling away. The sweet aroma from the boi...

DELEVAN — Rep. Tom Reed told a Cattaraugus County Farm Bureau group Wednesday that new margin protection in the 2018 Farm Bill should help give local ...

ASHFORD — The first maple sap was a long time coming this season. Cold temperatures locked the sap in the trees. On Thursday, Brandon Blesy boiled his...

As the debate over legalizing and taxing recreational marijuana in New York gets underway, industrial hemp, marijuana’s less potent cousin, is taking ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a monthly column series, “Compassion in Action,” written by members of the Olean Area Charter of Compassion, and w...

ANGELICA — Each year the news media reports on farm deaths caused by a tractor rollovers or machinery accidents involving power take off shafts, drive...

LITTLE VALLEY — Farmers, its seems, are aging out. Patrick McGlew, a development specialist with the Cattaraugus County Department of Economic Develop...

LITTLE VALLEY — The estimated 1,000 farms in Cattaraugus County produce more than $100 million a year in products. The average farm consists of just u...

A Cattaraugus farm family won a top New York Farm Bureau award at the group’s recent 2017 annual meeting in Albany. Darin and Katie Hill of Hill’s Val...

New York State is using high-tech and low-tech tools in its fight against the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid, a tiny insect from East Asia that can s...

OLEAN — Vendors and visitors to the Olean Farmer’s Market were excited Saturday about a city proposal to build a new market area. But some had concern...

ALFRED STATION — As the debate about global warming continues among scientists and politicians, farmers are personally trying to deal with the impacts...