agriculture

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...

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...

YORKSHIRE — The Cornell Cooperative Extension in Allegany, Chautauqua and Livingston counties, along with with CCE’s Northwest and Southwest New York ...

To lime or not to lime, now that is the question. The practice of adding lime to the hayfields probably slipped over to doing the same to our veggie g...

WELLSVILLE — Members of the village’s tree board want village trustees to increase their budget to preserve Wellsville’s legacy of trees. The tree boa...

Producing field crops in Southwest New York is an important sector of our agriculture industry, according to Katelyn Walley-Stoll, team leader and Far...

NEW YORK — Hemp farmers in New York state will be able to apply for a license to grow marijuana this year under legislation signed Tuesday by Gov. Kat...

BELMONT — Cornell Cooperative Extension will sponsor the 29th annual Rural Landowner Workshop on March 5. The program will begin at 9 a.m. and end at ...

Barb Hamlin’s job isn’t usually disgusting, but last summer was an exception. Parts of Hamlin’s trees on her maple farm in Preble were infested with g...

SCHUYLERVILLE — The thousands of people paid to plant corn, pick apples and milk cows in New York often work long days, six days a week — and earn ove...

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Counties have partnered to bolster the Master Gardener Volunteer program in both counties....

State Labor Department officials have made the right call in postponing a decision on farmworker overtime until sometime in January or February. New i...

OLEAN — Turn on the news or Google “the price of Christmas trees in 2021” and it won’t take long before you hear about this year’s nationwide tree sho...

WELLSVILLE — The Wellsville Area Chamber of Commerce Hometown Holiday brought not only Santa to town Saturday, but also hundreds to watch the parade, ...

OLEAN — Staff at Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce have been lining up activities and vendors for the first Jingle Bell Jubilee planned for Dec. ...

In the coming weeks, the Farm Laborers Wage Board will make a determination with respect to the state’s overtime rules governing New York farms. Depen...

PORTVILLE — Four generations of a Portville family have kept the fruits and vegetables available to local residents for about 80 years, and the tradit...