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SKANEATELES — Farmer Jeremy Brown taps the nose of a young calf. "I love the ones with the pink noses," he says. This pink-nosed animal is just one of...

ALLEGANY — For Americans who want to more carefully consider the food they eat — and how their choices might affect their health for the better — one ...

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

ALLEGANY — Protecting farmland and ensuring that American agriculture has the government-policy support to keep producing is not just about helping fa...

The dairy industry has not only been one of the more important forces in American nutrition, but it has also helped propel New York into one of the mo...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office to evaluate the workability of the federal milk pricing system, w...

ITHACA — Cornell University is partnering with several state agencies and organizations to help farmers and private forest owners implement climate-sm...

OLEAN — You may find that nothing you do on Friday may be as important as stopping by the Enchanted Mountains Farmers Market — after a stop at your lo...

NEW SCOTLAND (TNS) — Providing farmworkers with the overtime benefits that most everyone else receives is one of those ideas that seems to make intuit...

State Sen. George Borrello, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has proposed legislation that would eliminate the three-member Farm La...

OLEAN — If you’ve been hoping for a chance to thank community heroes, Friday is your chance as the Enchanted Mountains Farmers Market has invited them...

BELMONT — The Office for the Aging is distributing Farmers Market Coupons to eligible seniors, with booklets containing $25 in coupons. Eligibility to...

The opening of farmers markets are in many locales a harbinger of spring. But these retail marketplaces provide more than a reminder that warmer weath...

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...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s marijuana agency is working toward a swift launch for a proposed $200 million fund to help people of color, women and certa...

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...

ALBANY (TNS) — Farm workers are being paid more under a year-old, 60-hour overtime threshold, but farm owners said they are worried that bringing thei...