'Ag Jobs' Bill Offers Path to Legal Status

WASHINGTON — The immigration reform package negotiated by Sen. Charles E. Schumer and other Senate leaders gives undocumented immigrants working on farms a chance to gain legal status — a provision long sought by farm groups but which remains politically dicey with public opinion strongly against illegal immigration.

The immigration measure announced last week includes an "Ag Jobs" bill that has languished in Congress for a few years but which Mr. Schumer, D-N.Y., and other supporters are counting on to secure votes from farm states.

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'Ag Jobs' Bill

Group Presses for Immigration Overhaul

'Choose Between Practical Reform and the Hate-mongers’

Ami Kadar, director of CITA

ALBION – Gary Pudup knows there will be loud and angry voices opposing any attempt to overhaul the country’s immigration laws.

There will be plenty of talk about sending “illegals” home, about how they take jobs from Americans and live as criminals in the United States. The furor already has erupted on the talk shows and with political rhetoric, demonizing the estimated 12 million people in the country without proper documents, Pudup said Saturday at a rally for immigration reform in Albion.

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Immigration Overhaul

Murphy Brings Dutchess Farmers Together for Agriculture Conference

Murphy,left, standing, said conference part of "Re

LAGRANGEVILLE – To further his “Renew Upstate New York” Plan, Congressman Scott Murphy brought agricultural producers and consumers together under one roof Friday at Tymor Park in Lagrangeville where he hosted a buy local agriculture conference for the purpose of bridging the gap that is hindering the Hudson Valley’s local organic food market.

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Murphy Brings Dutchess Farmers Together

Fire At Upstate NY Farm Kills Dozens Of Dairy Cows

Authorities said more than 80 cows have been killed in a barn fire at a northern New York dairy farm.

Fire officials in Jefferson County said the blaze broke out around 10 p.m. Thursday in a barn at Young Farms in Evans Mills, just outside Fort Drum, 75 miles north of Syracuse.

Officials say 70 cows and another 15 to 20 yearlings, animals 1 to 2 years old, were killed in the fire.

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Fire At Upstate NY Farm