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Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Empire Center fellow says “climate of confusion surrounds CLCPA”

ALBANY, N.Y. — Almost four years after the New York State Legislature passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), most New York residents don’t know much about the environmental law, according to a recent Siena College poll and an analysis by a thinktank fellow. Empire Center for Public Policy, Inc. fellow James Hanley […]

Buy Madison seeks to connect farmers with other businesses

HAMILTON, N.Y. — Buy Madison is hosting a “matchmaker” event on March 22 to bring together agriculture producers and businesses in the county. “We’re trying to find ways to connect our agriculture businesses to other small businesses,” says Samantha Field, public information officer for Madison County. The county hosted a similar successful event in 2017

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NYS Labor Department finalizes farm-worker OT regulations

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York State will start lowering the overtime pay threshold for farm workers next Jan. 1, reducing it to 56 hours from the current 60. The process will continue with the overtime threshold limit going down by four hours every other year until reaching 40 hours in 2032. That’s when farm workers

New York cabbage production declined 9 percent in 2022

New York farms produced an estimated 4.24 million cwt (hundredweight) of cabbage in 2022, down 9 percent from the 2021 estimate.  That’s according to a Feb. 15 report from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), New York Field Office. The average yield per acre was estimated at 400 cwt last year, down 7 percent

New York onion production fell 7 percent in 2022

A recent government report found that New York onion production fell an estimated 7 percent to 2.52 million cwt (hundredweight) last year from the 2021 production estimate.  That’s according to a Feb. 15 report from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), New York Field Office. The average yield per acre was estimated at 400 cwt

New York milk producer prices fall 4 percent from prior month

Milk prices at the producer level in New York state remained elevated in the latest month but prices tempered from previous months. New York dairy farms were paid an average of $24.90 per hundredweight of milk in December, down 4.2 percent from $26 in November, but were still 13.2 percent higher than the $22 average in December

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