farms

Farmers and worker advocates are keeping a close eye on the Farm Laborers Wage Board Tuesday, ahead of a monumental decision that will change the way many local farms operate.

A trillion dollars worth of American farmland will change hands in the coming years. Wealthy investors are likely to buy more of it with the power to shape rural communities and the environment.

Supporters hope that their efforts to change an 80-year-old law that excludes farmworkers from many of the protections afforded to other workers in New…

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vetoed a bill that would have given farmers a tax credit for giving food to food banks. In the past few days, many healthy food…

A large part of New York state is still in severe to extreme drought. The USDA will now cover the cost of new pipelines and wells for farmers in Jefferson…