Budget Restores $2.5 Million for Agriculture
Oswego County Today
6/27/10
ALBANY (June 25, 2010)—State Sen. Darrel J. Aubertine said the budget bill passed on Monday move around limited revenue for agriculture programs to better target essential programs, while also restoring key funding the governor’s budget would have omitted...
“The difficulty of the state’s fiscal climate was abundantly clear in this year’s appropriations for agriculture,” said Dean Norton, president of New York Farm Bureau.To view the rest of the story click on the following link:
Budget Restores $2.5 Million for AgricultureBlack Horse Farms Partners with the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York
Black Horse Farm & Regional Food Bank, Northeaster
6/24/10
Black Horse Farms owner Lloyd Zimmermann has donated fresh produce to the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York for several years. As he started planning for this season, he reached out to the Food Bank to discuss how he could do more to help meet the 25% increase in need the Food Bank is experiencing.
He determined he would add a step to his daily sorting and packaging operations to ensure that good produce that does not meet the aesthetic grade necessary for sale is donated to the Food Bank at its freshest state.To view the rest of the story click on the following link:
Black Horse Farms Partners with Regional Food BankGenetically Altered Salmon Get Closer to the Table
By Andrew Pollack
The New York Times
6/25/10
The Food and Drug Administration is seriously considering whether to approve the first genetically engineered animal that people would eat — salmon that can grow at twice the normal rate.
The developer of the salmon has been trying to get approval for a decade. But the company now seems to have submitted most or all of the data the F.D.A. needs to analyze whether the salmon are safe to eat, nutritionally equivalent to other salmon and safe for the environment, according to government and biotechnology industry officials. A public meeting to discuss the salmon may be held as early as this fall.To view the rest of the story click on the following link:
Genetically Altered SalmonKeep Local Farms Initiative Aims to Help New England Dairy Farmers
By Jessie Salisbury
MILFORD – About 70 percent of actively farmed land in New Hampshire is associated with dairy farming, including farmers who raise hay and silage corn, but there are only 126 dairy farms left in the state.
To stop – or at least slow – the loss of farms, concerned people across New England have formed the Keep Local Farms initiative.To view the rest of the story click on the following link:
Keep Local Farms Initiative Aims to Help New England Dairy Farmers
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