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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...

(TNS) WASHINGTON — In May, Phil Trowbridge, a farmer in Ghent, watched his first-ever virtual cattle auction with fear in the pit of his stomach. “I w...

GENEVA — Of all the world’s staple foods, perhaps none is as ubiquitous as corn. Each person on Earth eats an average of 70 pounds of the grain each y...

GENEVA — Many New York tomato growers are familiar with the scourge of bacterial canker — the wilted leaves and blistered fruit that can spoil an enti...

As the House of Representatives prepares to vote on articles of impeachment, Rep. Tom Reed said Thursday he hopes it doesn’t upend passage of the trad...

ITHACA — Dale Ila Riggs knew the pests were coming for her berries. It was summer 2012, and Riggs watched as the invasive spotted wing Drosophila, a t...

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...

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