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High demand for firs since the pandemic led to over harvesting at many upstate New York Christmas tree farms. Now, farmers want to sell more trees, but can't afford to cut into future crops.
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Latino immigrants who work on New York's dairy farms, and the dairy farmers who hire them, live in legal limbo. The work on dairy farms happens year-round. But there’s no year-round agricultural visa program. So hundreds, perhaps thousands, of dairy farm workers exist in the shadows.
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Households must report the loss to their county Department of Social Services within 10 days of losing power.
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Area quarantined — 1.4 million chickens killed to prevent spread
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"That was all because of product demand, and I don’t think product demand is going to subside this year.”
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"Making sure that our milk can go to our schools, milk can go to our hospitals, milk can go to our community centers. Wherever there’s more localized opportunities to grow and build from, that should be the focus."
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The next COVID-19 relief package may replenish the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, which helped restaurants that were suffering due to the pandemic.
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The arrests come as a result of an ongoing police investigation into allegations of sexual assault.
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A federal grant funds the ‘AgriSafe Helpline’ effort.
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"We (should) take care of our workers, give them what they need, but give the farmers, perhaps tax relief, to ameliorate the impacts.”
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“To drop the threshold to 40 hours over the next decade will be extremely difficult for farmers and farmworkers alike to absorb."
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While lanternflies can stress trees, it appears they only kill grapevines and tree of heaven, also an invasive species, directly by feeding on them.