agriculture

As New York state moves closer to changing the pay scale for farmworkers, great care must be taken to ensure the effort doesn’t completely backfire. T...

New York state's Farm Laborers Wage Board on Tuesday approved its final recommendation to roll back the current 60-hour-per-week overtime threshold fo...

CANSERAGA — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Allegany County’s Agriculture Program will host an irrigation pasture walk at Birds All Dairy from noon t...

ITHACA — The devastating spotted lanternfly’s spread to Upstate and Western New York is not a matter of if, but when, experts say — and Cornell Univer...

State Sen. George Borrello, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has proposed legislation that would eliminate the three-member Farm La...

From a 1922 advertisement for the latest in washing machines to Olean North End boys answering for their filching, to the proposed construction of a c...

ANGELICA — Five 4-H Club members who died in a house fire in April were honored with their own bench by the Allegany County Fair Board on the eve of t...

LITTLE VALLEY — The deadline for Cattaraugus County Fair entries is Wednesday. The county fair — July 31-Aug. 6 — has posted their Domestics and Anima...

PORTVILLE — The Pfeiffer Nature Center will present programs July 14, 21 and 28 exploring the fascinating world of the ground beneath our feet — and t...

Matthew Blesy of Ashford is the Cattaraugus County winner of the 2022 New York Farm Bureau Scholarship. He will be awarded a $250. Matthew is the son ...

HomeCare & Hospice, which provides medical care and emotional support for patients and their families coping with life-limiting illnesses, will begin ...

A few days ago, on his way home from work, my husband helped push a stranger’s car into a gasoline stall. The driver had run out of gas just as she wa...

OLEAN — The Olean City School District was awarded a Farm to School Grant that will provide resources for the district to subcontract with Cornell Coo...

ALFRED — The Alfred State College’s Agriculture and Veterinary Technology Department recently held a successful Showmanship Competition at the college...

ALFRED STATION — Cornell Cooperative Extension is excited to announce the Managing Transplants for the Garden workshop. Once again it’s that time of y...

A deadly epidemic has struck birds across the United States and, while it’s no COVID-19, the consequences are far-reaching. Avian influenza, often cal...

HINSDALE — There is a lot of history and lore surrounding the Keller Hill area of Hinsdale and thanks to William Wesler, who lived almost 200 years ag...

PORTVILLE — The power of native plants workshop will be held April 23 from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Portville Free Library, 2 N. Main St. Have you ev...