farming

Growing up on a family farm in West Bend, Iowa, Haley Banwart and her brother were like other farm kids. They did chores, participated in 4-H, and even…

Want to know what crops local farmers are producing? There’s an app for that or at least there will be one soon. Sen. Chuck Schumer announced federal…

Story begins at 20:00To the rest of the world New York is a city, an urban jungle of towering skyscrapers and international culture. But north of the…

During the heart of apple picking season lawmakers in the House of Representatives are considering a bill that aims to simplify the federal tax…

Brian Reeves is plucking dead leaves off of pepper plants on his farm in Baldwinsville."If it keeps up, they will lose more and more leaves and you come…

As urban farms become a familiar feature of many large cities, they’re also presenting a challenge for zoning laws and regulators. This is the story…

A western New York Community College is launching a first-its-kind Food Processing Technology program in the fall of 2014. The program at Genesee…

Most of the time, Eric Andrus is a beef and rice farmer. But lately, he’s learning to be a boat builder. On this day, he’s in the barn, sanding the hull…

Smaller farms in upstate New York are being squeezed by the valuation mechanisms that peg taxation to land values.One of those challenges is property…