Ag/Environmen

Cortlandville solar law discussion questionable

The Cortlandville Town Board met Monday in apparent violation of state law to discuss a proposal before the Cortland County Legislature to change the way tax breaks are approved for solar power …

Trinity Valley Dairy in Truxton hosts Halloween fun

The organizers of Trinity Valley’s season-ending festival Saturday advised dressing up — both to beat the cold and because dressing up at Halloween is fun. They didn’t need to worry …

Residents split on solar law

Cortland County residents were almost evenly divided Thursday on whether Cortland County should shift responsibility for negotiating property tax deals with commercial solar developers to its …

Fly fishing -- part art, part skill, all outdoors

Fall season is full of outdoor opportunities. And while the fishing season may start in April when snow is still on the ground, it’s still going strong as the leaves change color each …

County reconsiders commercial solar law

The Cortland County Legislature may delegate its responsibility to negotiate commercial solar projects to the Cortland County Industrial Development Agency after the county has gone two years without …

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 …

SPECIAL CONTESTS Tree ID: 4-H: Ruby Metcalf FFA: Hunter Bennett, Maddy Bennett, Addison Brown, Clara Currie, Sidney Glover, Kaylee Muters. 4-H Jr. Iron Chef: Team Results: 1st — The …

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 …

PROMOTION OF DAIRY & LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS Promotions: Blue ribbon to Dairy Dreamers 4-H Club HORTICULTURE RESULTS WINDOW BOXES AND CONTAINERS: Cloverbuds: Leah Bottle, Luca Cox, Weston …

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 …

DAIRY CATTLE BREEDS Cloverbud Classes: Spring Calf (March 2 - April 3, 2022) Ayrshire: 1st Rhett Petri Holstein: 1st Jamie Mendez-DelaCruz, 2nd Blake Sherman, 3rd Troy Sherman, 4th Johnathon Lawton, …

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 …

DAIRY CATTLE SHOWPreliminary Showmanship:Ages 16 andolder: Blue ribbons to Caleigh Stone, Hannah Slade, Evan Butts, Sophia Wilbur, Mason Slade, Aleta Gross, Marah Ripley. Red ribbons to Sierra …

ZUCCHINI CAR RACE:Ages 5-8: Jacob Wheeler, Zander Stevens, Carley Schiff, Shelby Scanlon, Carter Stone, Sterling Scanlon, Jorian Phelps, Morgan Keith, Carter Myrto and Lyla Bottle. Top Winners: …

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 …

Hollenbeck's Cider Mill in Virgil products up to six tons of apple pomace a week, and it's free for the taking, the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cortland County has announced. You do, however, …

The first phase of a project by the Cortland County Industrial Development Agency to clean the former Apex site in Cortland was completed Wednesday, the IDA reported.

River cleanup Sept. 24 helps the environment and painted turtles, too

According to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, the Painted Turtle is the most common fresh water turtle species in New York. Adults can vary in length between 5 to 10 inches, …

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 …

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