agriculture

MACHIAS — Brian Andrews plans to grow around 1,100 acres of soybeans in fields across Cattaraugus County this year — about the same as in 2017. It’s n...

WESTFIELD (AP) — The purple grapes that wind up as grape jelly and grape juice are the topic of a summit that will bring together growers and others i...

Each coming spring, my sister-in-law and I share a task we take very seriously. The Gordy Wuethrich Memorial Scholarship is administered through a fou...

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

History buffs know that many early pioneers in Western New York and Pennsylvania exercised “government warrants for land” in lieu of pay during the la...

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...