Heritage Wind is moving forward on its plans for a 33-tower wind farm in the Orleans County town of Barre and just gave public notice that it plans to submit a construction application to the state Jan. 31. The project ...
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Earlier in his career in banking, John McKenna was living the life. Following five years with Citibank in Rochester, he became an investment banker with what’s now known as JP Morgan Chase and worked at the largest bank in the ...
Tagged with: Bank One Citibank Jim Fulmer John McKenna JP Morgan Chase Livingston Associates Scott Ingalls Tompkins Bank of Castile
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A new state law on payment and work conditions of farmworkers kicked in Jan. 1 and has some New York farmers worried about how to comply with the new rules on farm labor while still making enough money to stay ...
Tagged with: agriculture Becker Forum Farmworkers labor laws NYS Vegetable Growers Association
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Farm preparedness in the 2020s is a lot more sophisticated than locking the barn door before the horse gets out. The “Modern On-Farm Preparedness” series of workshops and webinars offered by the Cornell Cooperative Extension and other dairy-related agencies starts ...
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A septet of female chefs and food-and-beverage producers from the Finger Lakes region will be featured presenters at the esteemed James Beard House in Manhattan in January. The team, headed by Geneva’s Samantha Buyskes, is currently listed on the house’s list of ...
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At least three local farms are receiving more than $100,000 each in grants from the federal government to help bring their operations up to date with renewable energy systems. The state director for rural development announced this week that New Yorkers ...
Tagged with: agriculture Brightly Farms Kludt Brothers Panek Farms renewable energy US Department of Agriculture USDA Rural Development
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When it comes to drinks, the Finger Lakes region has wine trails, beer trails, spirits trails and even cider trails. For consumers who like to mix it up, there’s a craft beverage trail, and its member businesses are now offering ...
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Wayne County fruit farmer Gary Orbaker won the Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award at the annual meeting of the New York Farm Bureau last week. Orbaker, who raises fruit in Williamson, Wayne County, was honored for his contributions to membership ...
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Rochester can now boast not one but two urban cider bars that operate without a trace of apple trees nearby, and both have seen some recent developments in their businesses. The older of the two, Mullers Cider House, recently changed hands ...
Tagged with: Bill Bly Chris Bly Cider Hungerford Michael DiFranco Mullers Cider House Seed + Stone Cidery William Kellerman
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Sen. Charles E. Schumer called upon the federal government Wednesday to allow more time for comment on proposed hemp regulations, concerned that the proposed rules would harm the rising industry of growing the useful plant. Schumer announced his concerns while ...
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Just in time for Thanksgiving meal planning, there’s another E.coli outbreak affecting romaine lettuce. The Centers for Disease Control reported Friday afternoon that 40 people had become sick and 28 hospitalized with a strain of E. coli that appeared to ...
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Catharine Young didn’t change much about her living situation when she became head of the new Center of Excellence in Geneva last March. Young had spent 20 years on the road, commuting between her home in Olean and Albany, where ...
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U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer says a federal program to help compensate farmers for negative trade impacts is stacked against New York farmers. Schumer said Friday that Southern farmers are receiving 95 percent of the top awards from the U.S. ...
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New York is about to get more real. More RealEats America, that is. The Geneva meal-subscription company won the top, $1 million prize in the competition for start-up companies featured in the Grow-NY Food & Ag Summit ending Wednesday evening. ...
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Consumers want their food choices to be fresh, local, “clean,” healthy, decadent, plant-based, full of taste, packaged in a recycled container, and made by a company that has a social conscience and doesn’t harm the environment. Those were some of ...
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