2,000 Reasons to Sell N.Y. Wines in Groceries

Dean Norton

State legislators have a chance to put more products with the Made in New York label on the shelf in your local grocery store while supporting New York's wineries and grape growers. Passing legislation to allow wine sales in grocery stores would provide an enormous opportunity to create new markets for our state's farms and give consumers the opportunity to buy local products at their neighborhood stores.

More than 270 wineries are scattered across the state, from Long Island and the Hudson Valley to the Finger Lakes and Niagara.

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2,000 Reasons

Time to Tap the Sap: Maple Season Arrives in Central New York

Barbara Hamlin, owner, Pied Piper Maple Products

Barb Hamlin has been in love with maple since she visited Vermont at age 7 and had some molded maple sugar at a farm.

"I've been hooked on maple since I was very little," she said while preparing a pot of maple-flavored coffee the morning after having a dish of maple ham for dinner. "I never get tired of it."

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Time to Tap the Sap

Immigration Probe Daunting, Vt. Producer Says 


BAKERSFIELD, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont dairy farmer who was among those targeted in a federal crackdown on undocumented workers says he thought three illegal workers had proper documentation.

Clement Gervais believes his family's farm has been cleared following the November inspection by immigration officials, but federal officials say four cases involving farms are still pending in Vermont.

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Immigration Probe Daunting

Schumer to Address Milk Price Disparity

ALBANY — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says Justice Department officials will meet later this month with upstate New York farmers and consumers over claims that anticompetitive practices are driving down prices paid to dairies at the same time retail milk prices soar.

The meeting with Schumer and the top federal antitrust investigator will be at Genesee Community College in Batavia on March 29.

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Milk Price Disparity