Empire State Farming

From the USDA: Beginning in late July, the Northeastern Regional Field Office of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) ...

Commercial red meat production for New York totaled 3.8 million pounds in October, up 12 percent from the 3.4 million pounds produced in...

Potatoes growing in a field Interesting story about potatoes. Go to http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/34942740-75/u.s.-department...

An Adirondack blue potato A can’t-do-without item on the Thanksgiving table is the potato.   No matter how you eat them — mashed, boile...

Go to http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/national/genetically-engineered-apples-and-potatoes-approved-by-fda-20150322?utm_source=dPkmGL&...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  And please, as you count your blessings, be sure to thank the farmers who toil every day for every morsel...

From the governor's office: Even though it's winter, you still can go to a farmers' market. The locations of 116 winter farm...

Earl Sheldon, harvesting onions on his Route 176 farm, circa early 1940s. The Sheldon family is part of the recently-published book on th...

There is one great way each year to savor all of the agriculture in Oswego County. That's the Oswego County Harvest Dinner, th...

Late blight can be devastating to crops, especially tomatoes and potatoes. Go to  http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013/07/mercer...

Photo from Cornell University Go to http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/537604/A-spudding-interest.html to see ...