Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery has been named one of the top 100 wineries in the world for 2019 by Wine & Spirits magazine. The magazine released its list over the weekend, including wineries from around the globe, with one-third of ...
Tagged with: Dr. Konstantin Frank Fred Frank Joshua Greene Mark Veraguth Meaghan Frank Top 100 Wineries Wine & Spirits magazine
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Dairy farmers have an extra week to enroll in the Dairy Margin Coverage program, a type of federally backed insurance that provides payments when milk prices fall and feed prices don’t. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the new ...
Tagged with: 2018 Farm Bill dairy farms Dairy Margin Coverage USDA
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The day Red Jacket Orchards turned on the juice production line at its new plant in 2010, Brian Nicholson had a realization. What began as a fruit farm and roadside produce stand two generations earlier had already expanded to shipping ...
Tagged with: Apple Brian Nicholson Joe Nicholson John Engels juice Mark Nicholson Red Jacket Orchards
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Eighteen finalists, including three from the Rochester area, have been selected in the first round of the state’s Grow-NY food and agriculture innovation competition. Competitors must present their business plans for consideration in a competition to win a top prize ...
Tagged with: Cornell Uniervsity Center for Regional Economic Development Grow-NY Perfect Granola Re-Nuble RealEats
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The apple harvest in New York has started and the agriculture experts at Cornell University say there’s good news. Because of early rainfall, sunny summer weather and recent cool evenings, the apples are looking good for the 2019 crop. “2019 ...
Tagged with: Apples Arthur Agnello Cornell University Kerik Cox Susan Brown
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Apple producers in Wayne County are readying their farm stands, cideries and other apple-oriented businesses for the annual Wayne County Apple Tasting Tour in October. The tour lasts the entire month of October, hosted by 12 Wayne County businesses. Special ...
Tagged with: agriculture Apples Lagoner Farms Orbaker's Fruit Farm tourism Wayne County Youngman Orchard
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It’s been a big week in Finger Lakes wine country. Not only was the area named the top wine region in North America for the second year in a row, but two executives of the New York Wine & Grape ...
Tagged with: Carmella Barbagallo finger lakes Finger Lakes Wine Alliance New York Wine & Grape Foundation Paul Brady Sam Filler USAToday
Read More »Wagner Vineyards, located the east side of Seneca Lake, was named Winery of the Year at the annual New York Wine Classic held in Watkins Glenn Monday through Wednesday. The prize comes as the winery is celebrating its 40th anniversary. ...
Tagged with: Andrew Cuomo Johnson Estate Winery New York Wine & Grape Foundation New York Wine Classic Sam Filler Six Mile Creek Winery Wagner Vineyards
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Attitudes toward undocumented farmworkers in New York have improved over the course of a decade, according to a survey and study conducted by the Community and Research Development Institute (CaRDI) at Cornell University. The researchers published the findings in a ...
Tagged with: CaRDI Community and Research Development Institute Cornell University Farmworkers Mary Jo Dudley polls undocumented workers
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Sen. Charles E. Schumer announced today that $500,000 in federal funding will go to Geneva to establish a seed repository for the hemp industry. The money will go specifically to the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture, ...
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In April, Perry’s Ice Cream released a line of oat-milk-based frozen desserts that are dairy-free. In June they started sending out frozen yogurt laced with vegetable purees. This week craft ice-cream maker Eat Me Ice Cream was blending locally grown black currants into a ...
Tagged with: agriculture Amber Odner Andrew Novakovic Catelyn Augustine Chobani Cornell University dairy Eat Me Ice Cream food processing Gayle Perry Denning ice cream non-dairy Perry's Ice Cream Robert Denning wegmans
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The inaugural Grow-NY agricultural business competition has attracted nearly 200 applications hoping to win start-up money to launch a venture in the Finger Lakes region. The applicants are competing to be among the 20 finalists who will have a chance ...
Tagged with: agriculture Andrew Cuomo business competition Cornell University finger lakes Grow-NY Grow-NY Food and Ag Summit Tom Schryver
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An online course is available for operators of farm market stands, focusing on safe food handling procedures. The “Farmers Market Food Safety” course is offered by Penn State Extension, aiming to reduce risks of foodborne illnesses that can come up ...
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When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed the Farmworkers Bill into law last week, farmworker advocates were cheered, and many farmers were seriously dismayed. The new law goes into effect Jan. 1, 2020, and would require overtime pay for workers after ...
Tagged with: agriculture Andrew Cuomo Brian Manktelow farm workers John Marsella John Sorbello labor legislation Librada Paz Pamela Helming
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A multigenerational farm on Brace Road in the Ontario County town of Canandaigua is more economically secure now that the Brocklebank family has agreed to provide a conservation easement to the state. The easement provides Scott and Travis Brocklebank, the ...
Tagged with: agriculture Andrew Zepp Brock Acres Farm Canandaigua conservation easement Doug Finch Finger Lakes Land Trust Richard Ball Scott Brocklebank Travis Brocklebank
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