agriculture

After decades of growth, craft beer nationwide is in its worst-ever slump, with negative production for the second straight year and more craft brewer...

BELMONT — Cornell Cooperative Extension is presenting an online miniseries, Indoor Herb Gardening, with nine short videos instructing how to grow herb...

GENEVA — The invasive pigweed Palmer amaranth, first found in New York soybean fields in 2019, has been dubbed the “spotted lanternfly of weeds” for i...

BELMONT — Cornell Cooperative Extension announces a free online class, "Managing Stress with Gardening," will be held from 11 a.m. to noon Monday, Nov...

BELMONT — Fall colors have faded and winter approaches, and it’s the perfect time to prepare your garden for the cold months ahead. Fall gardening is ...

A small experimental apple orchard at Cornell University’s Hudson Valley Research Laboratory may soon be topped by solar panels — which would not only...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca City Central School District announced Wednesday that it has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the New York State Departmen...

BOULDER, Colo. — Rachel Hatch of Freedom, N.Y., has been named one of only two recipients of a 2024 Horizon Organic Producer Education (HOPE) Scholars...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cattaraugus County will host fall programming this Saturday. Experts from the Cornell Maple Program, ...

For many years gardeners have been going to nurseries every spring and fall looking for the right plant to place in their gardens. Carol Sitarski, a M...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Most Americans don’t think twice about leaving half a glass of water on the table as they leave a restaurant. It’s only when we pa...

Over the last two decades, my mother has devoted herself to creating a small homestead farm in Upstate New York. I’ve had a front-row seat to the trib...

BELMONT — Cornell Cooperative Extension has changed the date of its annual Soil pH Clinic from Sept. 21 to Sept. 28. It will be held from 10 to 11:30 ...

GENEVA — An autonomous robot — a base on wheels fitted with computer vision technology that snaps images of grapevines in near real-time — rolls down ...

BELMONT — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Allegany County will host its annual soil pH clinic for residents to bring in soil for a free pH test. A ga...

ALFRED STATION — The Allegany County Farmer-Neighbor Dinner will be held Wednesday, Sept. 25 at the Lake Lodge, 6107 Terbury Road. The dinner is spons...

RANDOLPH — One team from Randolph Central School’s FFA will advance to the National FFA Convention & Expo in Indianapolis this October. Five FFA membe...

BELMONT — Cornell Cooperative Extension will offer a workshop for farmers and meat processors, Composting Livestock Mortality and Butcher Waste, 5:30 ...