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  • Seward Celebrates Agriculture Literacy Week

    By Susan Campriello
    Hudson-Catskill Newspapers
    3/26/10

    Students at Catskill Elementary School learned Monday the importance of trees to the environment and economy during a special Agricultural Literacy Week story hour. State Sen. James L. Seward, R-Oneonta, was the event’s guest reader.

    Agriculture Literacy Week is part of a New York Farm Bureau Agriculture in the Classroom initiative to teach students about agriculture; Seward said the program is one of several agricultural programs that may be terminated due lack of funding in the state budget proposed by Gov. David A. Paterson earlier this year.

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  • Mild Temperatures Impede Syrup Harvest

    By Paul Post
    The Troy Record
    3/26/10

    In 30 years of commercial maple operation, Cliff Nightingale has never seen a season like this one. Normally, his sugarhouse is billowing with clouds of evaporating sap in late March, and the ground outside is wet from melting snow in his 25 acres of woods, where 11 miles of collection tubes are strung from tree to tree.

    “Many producers are hoping that the cooler weather later this week saves our season,” said Peter Gregg, of the Upper Hudson Maple Producers Association.

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  • Wayne County Considers Wind Farm

    By Peter Iglinski
    WXXI
    3/26/10

    LYONS, NY (WXXI) - Wayne County residents and officials are discussing the possibility of having a wind farm constructed offshore in Lake Ontario. The New York State Power Authority has commissioned a study of feasible locations for offshore turbines--which includes a stretch along Wayne County.

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  • Milk Prices, Weak Economy, Prompt Dairy to Auction Herd

    By Maegan Crandall
    Lancaster Farming
    3/26/10

    PREBLE, N.Y. — Tom VanPatten, part-owner of VanPatten Farms located in Preble, N.Y., seems resigned that he will soon be auctioning off his dairy herd and moving on from a career he has been doing his entire life.
    “I’m a little bitter about everything that’s going on, but it’s a business decision. It’s a business decision to dissolve because the cows aren’t going to pay for what the operating costs are. I don’t know if we’re doing the right thing, but we decided to pull the plug before we go in too deep,” said VanPatten.

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    Dairy to Auction Herd

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