Farm Labor Bill Voted Down

Many Genesee County farmers have referred to it as the “Farm Labor Death Bill.” One dairy farmer in LeRoy is celebrating after the Senate Agriculture Committee voted the bill down Tuesday.

“Oh this is phenomenal that it was stopped. We we’re worried about it all year,” Dale Stein of Stein Farms said. Among other things, the bill would force farmers to pay overtime and negotiate collective bargaining agreements. On Tuesday, the Senate Agricultural Committee voted 6 to 3 against the bill.

“I think with this bill being defeated in the committee, it sends a signal to the proponents in the legislation, ‘Okay, maybe we did try to take too big a bite of the apple here,’” Dean Norton, president of the New York State Farm Bureau said.

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Farm Labor Bill Voted Down

Man, APA Battle for 18 Years Over Property

After 18 years, tens of thousands of dollars, reams of documents, thousands of hours of research, two divorces, two sons who grew from kids to men and a constant worry that drove him, during the worst times, into depression, Tim Jones considers the recent settlement of his fight with the Adirondack Park Agency a hollow victory.

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18 Year Property Battle

U.S. Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds

Jason Hamlin, crop adviser in Dyersburg, Tenn.

DYERSBURG, Tenn. — For 15 years, Eddie Anderson, a farmer, has been a strict adherent of no-till agriculture, an environmentally friendly technique that all but eliminates plowing to curb erosion and the harmful runoff of fertilizers and pesticides.

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Roundup-Resistant Weeds

United Fresh 2010: School Food Executives Talk About Success of Salad Bar Program in NYC Schools

LAS VEGAS, NV -- Many people believe that getting school-age children to eat fresh fruits and vegetables is a major challenge, but the experience of the New York City school food program demonstrates that children will eat fresh produce if it is available and convenient and if they are given choices, as is the case with school salad bars, according to two presenters at United Fresh 2010 here April 21.

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Success of Salad Bar Program