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The town of Irondequoit will use $500,000 in state funding to create a year-round farmer’s market and make the Town Hall campus more accessible. The work, dubbed the “Backyard Project,” will turn the campus into a multi-use park and public ...

Congressman Joe Morelle is calling increased efforts by the federal government to eradicate the spotted lanternfly, an invasive insect that threatens the state’s agriculture economy. The spotted lanternfly poses significant concerns for farmers, wine makers, brewers and others involved in ...

Two Rochester firms, Crystal Creek Organics, Inc., and PrisAM LLC, are among 12 finalists in the fifth annual FuzeHub 2021 Commercialization Competition, with $50,000 to be awarded to the winner. FuzeHub assists small- and medium-sized manufacturing companies in New York. ...

The company launched as an organic mushroom grower, believing there would be consumer demand for better-tasting, nutrient-packed specialty mushrooms. That turned out to be true. Now Leep Foods has leapt further into the blended market, introducing a chicken-and-mushroom sausage line ...

A biotechnology company believes the ecologically safe crop-production products made at its Rochester manufacturing facility will strengthen the agricultural economy across the country and perhaps the globe. GreenLight Biosciences is producing RNA-based sustainable solutions to chemical pesticides that are meant ...

Four Rochester-area startups are among the 20 finalists in round three of Grow-NY, the food innovation and agriculture technology business challenge that provides up to $1 million in funding for the winner. Grow-NY focuses on the enhancement of the emerging ...

LandPro Equipment broke ground Tuesday on a new facility in Batavia that will house the firm’s agricultural, commercial, construction and homeowner sales and service operations in Genesee County. The company, headquartered in the Chautauqua County village of Falconer, is building ...

Meaghan Frank knows that most customers of Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery on Keuka Lake will open the bottles they purchase within 24 hours. But the vice president of the fourth-generation winery wants customers who choose to be able to age ...

Paul Guglielmo is pressed when it comes to thinking of any raw material prices that are the same as they were a year ago. “I haven’t seen an onslaught of price increases across the board like this before,” says Guglielmo, ...

Infrascreen is one of 10 finalist companies with optics, imaging and photonics-enabled technologies that’s working with NextCorps’ Luminate NY accelerator as part of its fourth cohort. Each company received an initial investment of $100,000 and is participating in the six-month program, which helps the selected companies speed ...

New York state officials have not finalized the licensing applications and regulations needed for the newly legalized cannabis industry, but experts say there is plenty to do to get ready for anybody planning to get into the industry. The Rochester ...

When the Food Safety Modernization Act was signed into law in 2011, it was expected it would take the U.S. Food and Drug Administration some time to roll out and train its inspectors on the various intricacies of the law. ...

Foodlink has purchased 3.6 million pounds of surplus food from farmers in the state over the past year as part of Nourish New York.

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REV LNG LLC is growing its renewable energy business locally, while building out its portfolio across the country. The company specializes in renewable energy project development and mobile energy services. Since 2012, it has provided liquid natural gas and compressed natural gas solutions to a ...