American Farmland Trust has created a relief fund to help farmers at the end of a domino effect caused by shooing people away from gathering and eating spots to prevent the spread of disease. The Farmer Relief Fund promises to ...
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Cornell Cooperative Extension is holding a seminar by video conference Friday morning for dairy farmers about how to manage their businesses with COVID-19 in mind. The conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. with ZOOM video conferencing technology, and can be ...
Tagged with: Cornell Cooperative Extension covid-19 dairy farms pandemic Richard Stup
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When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the closure of restaurants, bars, gyms and movie theaters earlier this week, he also effectively closed the tasting rooms of more than 500 wineries statewide. Preventive efforts like this aimed at lessening the severity ...
Tagged with: Andrew Cuomo Anthony Road Wine Company Colleen Hardy covid-19 John Martini Living Roots wine wineries
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A Penn Yan winery is again receiving attention from the James Beard Foundation. Red Tail Ridge Winery’s owners, Nancy Irelan and Mike Schnelle, have been nominated for a 2020 James Beard Award in the category of outstanding wine, spirits or beer ...
Tagged with: James Beard Award James Beard Foundation Mike Schnelle Nancy Irelan penn yan Red Tail Ridge Winery
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For more than a decade, dairy farms in New York have been trying to manage their cow manure and save on their electric bills by employing anaerobic digesters. The digester siphons off the manure’s methane — a greenhouse gas — ...
Tagged with: anaerobic digester Boxler Dairy Farm Brightmark Energy dairy farms Don Jensen Lakeshore Dairy Lamb Farm Lawnhurst Matt Lamb Robert Powell Swiss Valley Farms Zuber Farms
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The late John Brahm III, founder of Arbor Hill Grapery and Winery in South Bristol, Ontario County, was honored at the Unity Awards Banquet Wednesday on the opening day of a wine industry conference in Henrietta. Brahm, who also founded ...
Tagged with: BEV NY Boundary Breaks Vineyards Brown Hound Downtown Empire Merchants North Fox Run Vineyards Hans Walter-Peterson Jim Trezise John Brahm Karen Aumick New York Wine & Grape Foundation Peter Bell
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Cheribundi’s decision to pull out of production in the Geneva area and use a co-packer in Michigan will leave a hole in the Western New York food processing world. Cheribundi announced in January that it will start contracting for its ...
Tagged with: agriculture Bob Debadts Cheribundi Mike Hagan Mike Manikowski Sara Brady
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New York’s senators are crying for an investigation of onion prices, saying Canada is subsidizing growers north of the border who then have an unfair advantage when they sell their onions in New York. “New York State is home to ...
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For every $1 million the state provides to boost the grape and wine industry in New York, it gets $1.3 billion back in taxes, according to an economic impact report that just came out. The report compiled on behalf of the New York ...
Tagged with: Cornell Agritech economic impact John Dunham New York Wine & Grape Foundation Sam Filler Wine America
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Hemp growers in New York face the uncertainty of growing a crop that becomes illegal to sell because it unintentionally contains a higher amount of the psychoactive chemical THC than is allowable by state regulations. Now a Cornell University study ...
Tagged with: CBD Cornell Agritech Cornell University hemp Jacob Toth James Smart THC
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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 ...
Tagged with: Autumn Stoscheck Brown Hound Downtown Claire Benjamin Eve's Cidery finger lakes FLX Hospitality Group James Beard House Linnea Shumway Lively Run Dairy Nancy Irelan Red Tail Ridge Winery Rue Claire Chocolates Samantha Buyskes Susanne Messmer Trish Aser
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