Archive for 'Agricultural News'
‘These guys work six 12-hour days’: VT dairy farms anxious after migrant workers arrested
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Posted: April 25th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Plattsburgh’s spring artisan market, and many events set for Adirondacks from April 25-May 1
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Posted: April 25th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Arts and Entertainment, Business News, Community Events, Northern NY News.
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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
Posted: April 23rd, 2025 under Agricultural News, Border News, Community Events, Law Enforcement News, National News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Chobani to build ‘thriving center of food production’ in Rome, creating more than 1,000 jobs
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Posted: April 22nd, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Community Events, General News, Upstate New York.
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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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Posted: April 21st, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Education News, Environmental News, Heathcare News, National History, National News.
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An Open Secret’: Sackets Harbor ICE Raid Shows the ‘Reality’ of New York Dairy Country
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Posted: April 14th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, General News, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Social Issues.
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Dairy farmer Blake Gendebien claims $3M fundraising haul, continues actively campaigning for NY-21
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Posted: April 12th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Congressional News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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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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Posted: April 11th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Heathcare News, National News, Northern NY News, Religious News.
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Sackets Harbor family detained by ICE is returning home to the North Country
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Posted: April 7th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Border News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, National History, Northern NY News, Political News, State Government News.
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Trump freeze leaves New York farmers in limbo
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Posted: April 3rd, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Business News, Congressional News, Corruption in Gov't., National History, National News, Northern NY News, Upstate New York.
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North Country dairy farms are getting caught up in Trump’s immigration enforcement
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Posted: April 3rd, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Border News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, National History, National News, Northern NY News, Political News, Upstate New York.
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Sackets Harbor community calls for return of three children taken during ICE dairy farm visit
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Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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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
Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Business News, Environmental News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Regional NY-VT News.
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Vermont agriculture community reels from federal funding changes
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Posted: March 16th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Environmental News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Program that sends local food to Vermont schools loses funding in Trump cuts
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Posted: March 14th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Education News, National News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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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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Posted: March 12th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Business News, Environmental News, National News, Northern NY News.
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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 […]
Posted: March 11th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Arts and Entertainment, Business News, Community Events, Faces of Peru, General News, Northern NY News, Peru News, Peru resident news/accomplishments, Peru/Regional History, Things to do in & near Peru.
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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, […]
Posted: March 11th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, County Government News, General News, Heathcare News, National News, Northern NY News, Statewide News.
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Butterfly numbers have fallen by nearly a quarter since 2000
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Posted: March 7th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Environmental News, National History, National News.
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Texas Republican has beef with NY, seeks to change name of a New York Strip steak
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Posted: March 4th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Corruption in Gov't., General News, National News, Political News.
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Police: Keene woman who contaminated co-op products with urine likely did so at other businesses
Strange indeed! Click here for the MYNBC News story
Posted: February 24th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News.
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Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025 Rulfs Orchard
Peru, NY – Walking by these cousins this morning without taking a photo was impossible. Rulfs’ apples are GREAT!
Posted: February 19th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Business News, Faces of Peru, Northern NY News, Peru News.
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Layoffs, furloughs and callbacks. Almost daily drops of new White House policies disrupt Vermont’s workforce.
From layoffs at federal agency offices, furloughs at private contractors and international volunteer callbacks, Trump administration action is hitting Vermonters in waves. Click here for the VDigger story
Posted: February 15th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Congressional News, Corruption in Gov't., General News, National News, Peru/Regional History.
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Farms in the St. Lawrence and Champlain Valleys could be key in conserving grassland bird species
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Posted: February 14th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Business News, Environmental News, Lake Champlain News, Northern NY News, Statewide News.
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Dog Tether Law advocates confront town board
Peru, NY – February 10, 2025 – Several dog tethering law advocates addressed the board, asking it to support a county tethering law, something the board previously declined to do in early 2024. Spokeswoman Jennifer Jewett said County Legislator Robbie Timmons voted against enacting the law because “Peru is against the law.” She stated that […]
Posted: February 13th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Community Events, General News, Northern NY News, Peru School News, Town Board News.
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