agriculture

BELMONT — Allegany County officials OK’d the return of a full-time outreach specialist in the Department of Health on Monday, using state funds to fil...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Land Bank Corp. should know soon if its application for seed money to fight blighted housing has been approved. The...

ELKADER - Johnson’s Reception Hall in Elkader hosted a standing room only crowd of hunters, landowners and area residents on Monday night who were the...

Legislators voted 11-1 to authorize a memorandum of agreement with the Cornell Cooperative Extension Association of Allegany County and fund the progr...

ELLICOTTVILLE — More than a dozen Southern Tier commercial growers — including several Amish farmers — attended a daylong Cornell Vegetable Program me...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cattaraugus County has come a long way in just over a year since it split from a joint operation with...

SALAMANCA — A costly fire broke out in a storage barn on Mill Street behind the Holiday Inn Express between 10 and 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. According to Sa...

DuBOIS – U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Howard, Pa., will have a prime seat when Donald Trump is sworn in as the next president of the United States...

(TNS) I recently followed a drone through the ruined Syrian city of Aleppo, courtesy of YouTube. The destruction was sobering, to say the least. The c...

During the 17th century, Ganondagan, which the Seneca refer to as “Town of Peace,” was home to a thriving Native American population of approximately ...

ALLEGANY — In the 10 years Sister Joyce Ramage of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany has served as president of Canticle Farm, the all-natural, commun...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The Cornell Cooperative Extension director congratulated Cattaraugus County’s Cooperative Extension organization as it marked its firs...

Twenty-eight plows and sanders — plus a number of one-ton trucks with plows to clear intersections — are fueled up and ready for up to 2 feet of snow ...

Farmers just starting out and those looking to expand or diversify are invited to a workshop on Feb. 25 at Audubon County Extension. Farm Service Agen...

Just a few generations ago, the question of farm transfer and the fate of family farmland – a complex and often divisive issue today – was a much simp...

The snow has melted, and you can see the first peeks of blooming flowers outside. Ah, springtime is here again. And you’ve got an itch to get outdoors...

Before semi-trucks and interstate highways, before trade treaties and cargo ships, people ate food that came from much closer to where they lived. The...