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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
