The Peru Gazette

Source: Essex County looks to create fairgrounds marketing position | Sun Community News ELIZABETHTOWN | An Essex County committee agreed last week to move forward with a marketing position for the fairgrounds in Westport, an underused facility that, with a little

Source: Farm Bureau backs path to citizenship for undocumented dairy workers | NCPR News

Source: Seed shortage worries farmers, home gardeners – VTDigger

Source: Clinton County Fair set to return in 2021 | Sun Community News MORRISONVILLE | Area residents won’t have to endure another summer without their fill of funnel cakes, Ferris wheels and family fun, as the Clinton County Fair will be back up and running July

Source: 2021 Clinton County Fair planned for summer, organizers say

Chazy, New York. Unprecedented agricultural water quality research funded by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) is producing significant insight into how nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen are transported across and through soil. On February 24, 2021, project leader Laura Klaiber, a nutrient management researcher at the Miner Institute in Chazy, New […]

Source: As Farmers Plant Cover Crops To Reduce Runoff, Report Says They Also Use More Herbicides | Vermont Public Radio

Chazy, Canton, and Willsboro, New York.  The farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) has funded research investigating the opportunity for regional growers to meet the New York State requirement that all Farm Brewery-Licensed beer be made with 90 percent New York-grown ingredients by 2024. The results of the first two years of trials […]

Master Gardeners of Cornell Cooperative Extension Clinton County are offering a Seed Starting Zoom class on Saturday, February 13th from 10:00 am to 11:00 am with a follow-up class on Saturday, February 27th. If you would like to start flower or vegetable seeds using items you have at home; milk cartons, yogurt containers, or anything […]

Source: Farm overtime threshold change delayed | Local News | pressrepublican.com

Source: Cows And A Clean Lake? Champlain Advisory Committee Considers Dairy’s Future | Vermont Public Radio

“Battling ‘putrid’ outbreaks on the Adirondack Park’s eastern flank, New York and Vermont advocates struggle to reduce phosphorus pollution in Lake Champlain.” An excellent story that anyone concerned about Lake Champlain should read. Source: A lake in crisis | Adirondack Explorer

From the office of Congresswoman Elise Stefanik Washington, D.C.  – Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has announced that she will vote in favor of House passage of the 4th major legislative phase of Congress’ emergency coronavirus response later this afternoon. This most recent package will provide economic relief to small businesses, individuals, and families across the North […]

Peru’s farmers thrilled kids and adults alike tonight with a wonderful Christmas Tractor Parade.  Cars and people lined the streets and hundreds of kids were outside their homes to watch.  Great Job Farmers!!!!!!!!!  

If your children like farm tractors, they’re going to enjoy what happens this Friday in the Peru hamlet. Beginning at 7 p.m. several local farmers will be parading their tractors through many of the hamlet’s street. The parade will begin at the Irwin Farm in the Jarvis Rd., proceed down Jarvis Rd., Right on Elm […]

  If your children like farm tractors, they’re going to enjoy what happens this Friday in the Peru hamlet.  Beginning at 7 p.m. several local farmers will be parading their tractors through many of the hamlet’s street. The parade will begin at the Irwin Farm in the Jarvis Rd., proceed down Jarvis Rd., Right on […]

Source: Farmers in Quebec are the focus of program to protect Lake Champlain | NCPR News

Source: Farm succession planners work to preserve Vermont’s agricultural heritage – VTDigger

Source: Trading textbooks for pitchforks: students try farm life during pandemic | NCPR News

Source: Don’t Be Confused by Spotted Lanternfly Look-alikes this Fall – – The Adirondack Almanack

Grand Isle, VT – The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) seeks proposals for services to work with farmers in the New York portion of the Lake Champlain Basin to install temporary manure stacking pads on livestock grazing farms. The LCBP will provide up to $25,000 to support this effort to reduce sediment and phosphorus inputs […]

An AMAZING story! Source: Rooftop greenhouses take urban farming to new heights in Quebec | NCPR News

Source: Hundreds of cattle die in Beekmantown barn fire

Source: Community rallies after late night blaze at Beekmantown dairy farm | Sun Community News BEEKMANTOWN | As word of a devastating barn fire spread, fellow farmers and neighbors rallied behind Bubbins Farm and turned out in mass to help rescue animals and aid