agriculture

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County’s insurance company has indicated it will pay $1.2 million for damage done to the Franklinville Highway Barn after ...

With the spring gardening season ever closer, Steven Jakobi, master gardener volunteer with Allegany County Cooperative Extension, offers some advice ...

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...

ALLEGANY — Staff at Canticle Farm report the all-natural farm continues to do well this winter despite the weather. Sister Melissa Scholl, president o...

BELMONT — A two-year plan that could bring local farm products to Allegany County school cafeterias has received a $43,000 award from Gov. Andrew M. C...

Nearly half of all deaths are linked to the cumulative effects of poor diet. It’s not just about over-consuming bad food. It’s just as much about not ...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County plans to review its 10-year-old Agriculture and Farmland Protection Plan with an eye toward updating it next year. ...

OLEAN — Time is running out for area residents who want to purchase a locally grown Christmas tree for their homes this holiday season. Several local ...

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...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cattaraugus County celebrated the start of its third year Monday night. “It’s been a fast two yea...

ROME (AP) — State police are looking for the Grinch who stole three painted Christmas trees from a central New York farm. Troopers say the trees were ...

When Elvin Graham of Hastings Road in the town of Olean sent us his prediction for the first discernible snow of the season, he declared, “I'm not a m...

HINSDALE — After more than six months of revisions and heated public forums, Hinsdale residents will decide once and for all today whether their schoo...

OLEAN — Aldermen hope that a new plan to remove a selection of dangerous trees in rights of way may move forward in the next month. Members of the cou...

Central New York is a prime spot for finding abundant, locally grown fruits and vegetables. You see evidence of this at the many roadside garden stand...

EDDYVILLE — A town of Mansfield man who has been growing giant pumpkins for almost 20 years won the state title for biggest pumpkin over the weekend —...

STEAMBURG —An area east of Steamburg where Seneca farmers once built their houses, tilled the land and raised their families is now absolutely quiet. ...

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