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U.S. Air Force awards SRC blanket purchase agreement for intelligence mission data support
The U.S. Air Force has awarded SRC, Inc. a General Services Administration blanket purchase agreement to provide intelligence mission (IMD) support services to the National

Oneida County, MVCC partnership provides trades experience for students
UTICA, N.Y. — Carpentry and masonry students at Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) will help make improvements to Donovan Stadium at Murnane Field in Utica.

Byrne Dairy to sell Syracuse milk-bottling plant, “several” distribution centers
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Buffalo–based Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc. has signed an agreement to purchase the Byrne Dairy fluid-milk operations, including the fluid-milk plant located in

People news: Cherney joins St. Joseph’s Health Cardiovascular Institute
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — St. Joseph’s Health announced that Anton L. Cherney, a cardiothoracic surgeon, has joined its Cardiovascular Institute. St. Joseph’s Health said in a

Oneida Indian Nation to expand Point Place Casino
SULLIVAN, N.Y. — The Oneida Indian Nation says crews have started construction on the first expansion of Point Place Casino, located in the Bridgeport area

Weitsman donates $100,000 to Rescue Mission project
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Rescue Mission Alliance will use a $100,000 donation to help renovate its Clarence L. Jordan Food Service and Culinary Education Center.

Oneida County solar project that will power Upstate Cerebral Palsy is complete
BARNEVELD, N.Y. — The Barneveld location of Upstate Cerebral Palsy is the “sole beneficiary” of a 1.4-megawatt solar project that is now finished and in

Tompkins County Legislature awards firm a nearly $600,000 contract for parking-lot paving project
ITHACA — The Tompkins County Legislature on Sept. 19 awarded Nelson & Streeter Construction Co., Inc. of Pine City in Chemung County the contract for paving parking lots at two Tompkins County facilities. The lots are located at two facilities at the county’s northeast campus — the Health Department and the Emergency Response Center. The
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ITHACA — The Tompkins County Legislature on Sept. 19 awarded Nelson & Streeter Construction Co., Inc. of Pine City in Chemung County the contract for paving parking lots at two Tompkins County facilities.
The lots are located at two facilities at the county’s northeast campus — the Health Department and the Emergency Response Center. The contract is for $574,100, the amount of the construction firm’s bid, submitted on Sept. 16.
The project will be completed in the spring of 2020, timing that enabled the project to “come in significantly under budget,” David McKenna, a Tompkins County legislator and chair of the legislature’s Facilities and Infrastructure Committee, noted in a legislature news release.
The Tompkins County Legislature approved the contract by a unanimous vote, with two legislators (Henry Granison and Leslyn McBean-Clairborne) excused from the vote.

Monroe Plan For Medical Care leases space
SALINA — Monroe Plan For Medical Care, Inc., a nonprofit health-care services organization headquartered near Rochester, recently leased nearly 6,400 square feet of space in the professional office building at 100 Elwood Davis Road in Salina. Cory LaDuke and John Manilla of Cushman & Wakefield/Pyramid Brokerage Company represented the tenant in this lease transaction. Monroe
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SALINA — Monroe Plan For Medical Care, Inc., a nonprofit health-care services organization headquartered near Rochester, recently leased nearly 6,400 square feet of space in the professional office building at 100 Elwood Davis Road in Salina.
Cory LaDuke and John Manilla of Cushman & Wakefield/Pyramid Brokerage Company represented the tenant in this lease transaction.
Monroe Plan For Medical Care says on its website that it has been serving low-income and government-sponsored populations in the Greater Buffalo and Rochester regions for nearly 50 years. Monroe Plan provides health home-care management services and other health-care services to individuals enrolled in Medicaid Managed Care and Fee for Service, Child Health Plus, and the Essential Plan, including Medicaid-eligible children and families.
New York grain-corn production fell an estimated 21 percent this year, USDA reports
New York farms produced an estimated 81.1 million bushels of corn for grain this year, down 21 percent from 102.6 million bushels in 2018, according to an Oct. 1 forecast from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. New York farms harvested an estimated 530,000 acres of corn for grain in 2019, down 18 percent from
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New York farms produced an estimated 81.1 million bushels of corn for grain this year, down 21 percent from 102.6 million bushels in 2018, according to an Oct. 1 forecast from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.
New York farms harvested an estimated 530,000 acres of corn for grain in 2019, down 18 percent from 645,000 acres last year.
The total yield per acre in the Empire State was 153 bushels of corn this year, down nearly 4 percent from 159 bushels in 2018.
In neighboring Pennsylvania, production of corn for grain increased more than 15 percent to an estimated 153.6 million bushels in 2019 from 133 million bushels in the prior year, the USDA reported.
Nationally, U.S. farms produced an estimated 13.8 billion bushels of corn for grain this year, down more than 4 percent from 14.4 billion bushels in 2018, according to the USDA.
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