Open farm day in Madison County allows the public to visit farms and see where their food comes from. Read more here.
Local farm breweries are turning to locally grown hops to make their beers from Hops farmer, Chad Meigs. Read more here.
Triple J Farms is encouraging other Black farmers to enter the industry of agriculture by stamping messages on their egg cartons such as "Make farmers black again." Read more here.
ON Farm Fest in Onondaga county showcases technology that farmers are using to make their jobs easier but not all farmers think so. Read more here.
Israel based Agri-tech company, Soos, works with a CNY farmer to test their technology to save male chicks. Read more here.
Mental health among farmers is a growing concern as they are one and a half times more likely to commit suicide. Farmer Doreen Barker relies on a community group she created NY Farm Women, for support. Read more here.
A look at bison production in New York. Read more here.
Feed Our Vets is a food bank for veterans in NY Mills. They have fed thousands of veterans this year alone. Read more here.
The average age of the American farmer is 57.5 years old so the New York State Fair held a day where young people could explore careers in agriculture. Read more here.
With the war in Ukraine, the price of sunflower seed oil has rapidly increased as they are the world's largest exporter of the product. However, there is a company in CNY making the oil from locally grown sunflowers. Read more here.
The Salt City Harvest Farm is offering access to land, tools and market for refugees who want to enter the agriculture industry. Read more.
After a pandemic exposed stresses in the food supply chain and as climate change begins to impact farming, producers in upstate New York are turning to creative growing techniques to meet local demand year-round. Read more on two hydroponic farms.
With the Avian flu killing many birds, the price of holiday turkeys will increase. Read more here.
Youth agricultural programming in New York is making a comback since the COVID-19 pandemic. The Learning Farm in Ithaca offers after school programming and summer programs. Read more.
Ethan Tyo grows a Three Sisters garden at the community garden on Syracuse University's campus. The garden is a traditional indigenous way of growing corn, squash, and beans.
Food prices are up this year but so are the cost of inputs for farmers. Read more here.
A look at how one family makes their maple syrup. Read more.
Wagner vineyards has been growing and making Riesling for many years in the Finger Lakes region. Read how they do it here.
Cornell researchers have developed a new variety of broccoli fit to be grown on the East Coast. Read more.
A farmer competing in the farmer olympics throws a hay bale during Empire Farm Days.
