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Archive for 'Agricultural News'

Very special sign unveiled at Babble Rural and Farm Learning Museum

By John T Ryan May 22, 2025 – Peru, NY  Babbie Rural and Farm Learning Museum opened for its 2025 season last weekend. Saturday’s first highlight was the unveiling of a new roadside museum sign. After fifteen years in the elements, it was time! The museum’s new sign is special because Peru art teacher and […]

Learn about creation and success of Peru Town Market

They did their job, now they’re on the way home

Peru, NY, May 20, 2025 – 340 bee hives from Forrence and Sullivan Orchards departed Peru today for home in Rome, NY. Forrence Orchard trees were fully blossomed when temperatures were in the high seventies and low eighties making it for ideal pollination conditions. Seth Forrence said, “It was a beautiful bloom, short and sweet, […]

Peru students design new Babbie Farm Museum sign

The Babbie Rural & Farm Learning Museum is thrilled to announce the unveiling of its new museum sign. Peru School students, along with their teacher, designed and painted the new sign. The sign will be revealed during a special 10:00 AM ceremony on the museum’s opening day, Saturday, May 17th. To celebrate this special occasion, the museum […]

Several farmworkers detained in Vermont to have bond hearing this week

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Vermont agriculture secretary says dairy farmers are concerned about migrant farmworker arrests

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North Country at Work: Growing legal weed in Essex

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‘These guys work six 12-hour days’: VT dairy farms anxious after migrant workers arrested

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Plattsburgh’s spring artisan market, and many events set for Adirondacks from April 25-May 1

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US Border Patrol arrests 8 migrant workers at Berkshire dairy

The incident constitutes the largest immigration enforcement action against migrant workers in Vermont in recent memory. Click here for the VTDigger story 

Chobani to build ‘thriving center of food production’ in Rome, creating more than 1,000 jobs

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60 MINUTES – NEWSMAKERS Bird flu, feared as a possible pandemic, poses growing risk to people as pathogen spreads, scientists warn

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An Open Secret’: Sackets Harbor ICE Raid Shows the ‘Reality’ of New York Dairy Country

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Dairy farmer Blake Gendebien claims $3M fundraising haul, continues actively campaigning for NY-21

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1,700 pounds of Cabot butter recalled in New York, Vermont and 5 other states for possible fecal contamination

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Sackets Harbor family detained by ICE is returning home to the North Country

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Trump freeze leaves New York farmers in limbo

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North Country dairy farms are getting caught up in Trump’s immigration enforcement

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Sackets Harbor community calls for return of three children taken during ICE dairy farm visit

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Vermont’s changing agricultural landscape brings lawmakers new questions about protecting — and regulating — farms What kind of farming practices should be encouraged, which are tolerable, which should be disallowed — and who decides?

Lake Champlain Polution is an issue in VT ag  Click here for the VTDigger story 

Vermont agriculture community reels from federal funding changes

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Program that sends local food to Vermont schools loses funding in Trump cuts

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Excessive rise in bee deaths are impacting local honey producers as well as crop pollination on a national level

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Helen Nerska: “We always enjoy it when people come to visit. We want people to know they can share their history with us, and we’ll share ours with them.”

By John T Ryan Peru, NY – March 11, 2025 – “We do what we have fun doing.” That’s how Peru Town Historian Helen Nerska and volunteers Chris Mullen and Jackie Madison describe their work at the Peru historian’s office. The women, including Nerska, are unpaid volunteers who love local history and want to share […]

Clinton County Health Department and partners are monitoring Bird Flu

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)  Clinton County, March 11, 2025. The Clinton County Health Department (CCHD) and their local partners are working closely to monitor Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), also known as H5N1 or bird flu, in Clinton County and to share educational messages with poultry and dairy farms and workers, health care providers, […]