Report From the Onion Field
By Kathy Kahn
Westfair Online
4/2/10
Chris Pawelski didn’t stand on the muddy plot outside his Pine Island home for long before his boots sank in. “These two major nor’easters that hit us back to back have really put us in a bind,” said Pawelski, who has been farming the Black Dirt region of Orange County with his family for decades. Pawelski usually starts preparation of the fields with his father and brother by mid-March. They have been waiting for conditions to improve.
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Onion FieldHear that Buzz? It’s SweeTango Apples Coming to Market
By Richard Lehnert
Good Fruit Grower
April, 2010
SweeTango apples will, nature cooperating, begin flowing to market in commercial quantities in late August... In New York, 15 partners will funnel their apples either to Fowler Farms, Wolcott, New York, or Lake Ontario Fruit, Albion, New York, for packing. Fowler Farms will manage all the sales activities for the New York-grown fruit.
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SweeTango ApplesNatural Gas Boom Brings Riches to a Rrural US Town
By Jon Hurdle
Reuters
4/5/10
At a windswept rail yard at Wellsboro in northern Pennsylvania, dozens of railcars wait to load thousands of tons of sand onto trucks that will take the cargo to natural gas rigs across the state.
The freight railroad, which runs 35 miles (56 km) north to Corning, New York, had its busiest year in more than two decades in 2009, fueled by demand from a booming natural gas industry, which uses sand in hydraulic fracturing operations.To view the rest of the story click on the following link:
Natural Gas BoomResearch Supports Northern NY’s Biomass Energy Potential
The Gouverneur Times
April, 2010
WILLSBORO, NY - The results of research that supports Northern New York’s potential for producing biomass energy crops are now posted in two reports online at www.nnyagdev.org. The research was made possible with funding from the farmer-driven, NYS Legislature-funded Northern New York Agricultural Development Program.
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NY’s Biomass
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