Ag/Environmen

Watching a forest in a mast year is something to go nuts about

Fall is here — think apple cider, doughnuts, pumpkins and most important the long drives through Central New York to see the beautiful, vibrant foliage.The reds and oranges of oaks and maples, …

Prime pickin'

The wind was brisk, but the sky was blue and the hills dappled in yellows and orange as people descended on Anderson’s Farm Market to pick pumpkins, bowl with apples and shop at vendors at the …

A tour of tradition and the future

Come for the corn maze. Stay for the robotic cow milking. Trinity Valley’s corn maze on Route 13 in Truxton helps people get lost for an hour or two, but on the other side is a chance to see …

FFA fair brings agriculture to Marathon students

Four Kune Kune pigs sat squealing in a small fenced enclosure as Marathon students as Faith Baker told the pigs’ story. “The Kune Kune are natural grazers,” said Baker, a …

3 farms get $500,000 to resist climate change

With the help of state grants, three Cortland County farmers hope to reduce their environmental effect and prepare for increasingly turbulent weather driven by climate change.  Gov. Kathy …

Trees marked at Dwyer Park for removal

People told Cortland County Legislator Linda Jones recently they worried that trees marked with paint at Dwyer Memorial Park in Little York were destined for removal. They are. But there's …

Field Days introduce students to nature

Seven DeRuyter Middle School sixth-graders stood in a row Friday morning, their right feet on a long 4- by 4-inch wide wooden post, their left feet on a similar post parallel to the first. They …

The woodchucks win

They came to fight. They came dressed as woodchucks. Thirty years later, the people who stopped the state and federal governments from placing a low-level radioactive waste facility in Taylor …

Cover crops keep the field in place

Most of this summer has been hot and dry and, with that type of weather, the majority of crops are being harvested now. Agricultural fields tend to look barren, with plenty of bare soil and crop …

Overtime rule worries farmers

While a state proposal moves forward to lower the threshold at which farmers must pay overtime to workers, the labor market has already been pressuring the industry to move in that direction, a …

Dairy farmers boosted by record high payments for milk

A spike in milk prices paid to farmers in the past year — after years of depressed payments — is allowing them to pay off debt from the lean times, catch up on deferred maintenance and …

Still not a drought

Employees of Sherman Farm in Dryden were gathering freshly cut hay Thursday afternoon in a field off Route 13. It was a far cry from a month ago when abnormally dry weather rendered hay useless …

Gus Barn at Lime Hollow Nature Center in Cortlandville will reopen next month as BOCES classroom space following a nearly four-month renovation funded, in part, with $100,000 in American Rescue Plan …

Lanternflies light up upstate NY, but not Cortland County

They’re in Onondaga County. And Tompkins. Broome, too. And if the state has called for the immediate stomping of any Spotted Lanternfly you might encounter, they’re not in Cortland County – yet.

For fair competitors, success breeds work

Some kids spend summer vacation at the park, or swimming, or vegetating in front of the video game device trying to forget a year’s worth of learning. Christopher Slade spent his summer in the …

It's not a drought -- yet

Robert “Bobcat” Bonagura held his daughter Tuesday as he surveyed the fields of Main Street Farms, looking over some of the dried out vegetable plants on the field as tractors worked …

State grant to help farmers’ markets promote online sales

Farmers market farmers face enough challenges: Varmints got Joan Franklin’s first broccoli crop this year; she missed a week of picking and lost hundreds of pounds of summer and pattypan …

Growing competition

Fred Forbes Sr. drove his gray Dodge pickup truck up a Cortlandville hill, past fields of soybeans and corn, climbing as the path dissolved from asphalt to dirt, then nothing more than …

Two grants to support farm-to-school program

Branden Brown, the owner of Trinity Valley Dairy in Homer, is considering providing his dairy products to children at schools in Cortland County to support a farm-to-school program. “I mean, …

NILES — The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced Tuesday it has completed a $1.27 million project to improve access to the Carpenter Falls Unique Area in …

Donor hopes to add miles to Finger Lakes Trail in Harford

The Finger Lakes Trail stretches nearly 1,000 miles across New York State, and it may just get few more in Harford. Alex Gonzalez and his wife, Michele are looking to construct the first new …

Solar power push

The village of Homer and the town of Cortlandville are promoting a private company’s solar power project, which the municipalities partnered with separately.

Courtney Harrington has two children who attend Truxton Academy Charter School -- both Hunter and Jessa Harrington will be in third grade this fall. That's why, after the founding head of School …

Spill gone; worry remains

Scott Steve looked over the side of the rail on Interstate 81 and wondered. The night, June 16, was dark, but he knew the tractor-trailer tipped on the bridge was carrying an herbicide suspected of …

Contractors hired to clean former Apex site

Rats scurry through the 9-acre former industrial site along River and Cleveland streets in the city of Cortland. Police moved two homeless people living there on Thursday. Cortland Mayor Scott …

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