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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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“It flies as well, but it’s a weak flyer. So the main way it moves from place to place over long distances, is through human movement."
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The new Cannabis Control Board wants to ramp up New York’s recreational marijuana industry, that’s expected to roll out next year.
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Treatments include “trap-trees” with a synthetic insecticide, a full-year applied pesticide, and treating any egg masses with a soybean-based product.
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“It’s like a race against Mother Nature."
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The compounds, known as Neonicotinoids, or “neonics,” have been widely used during the past 15 years in a pre-treatment for corn, soy and wheat seeds.
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"98% of all farms in New York are family owned. I think in order to keep that number so high...the milk prices definitely need to go up."
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Agriculture is one of biggest sectors of New York State’s economy. Yet people of color are largely left out of it.
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Average daily attendance at this year's State Fair was down by more than 50% from the 2019 fair, primarily because of the pandemic.
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Wegmans said that by making the switch to fiber cartons, it will eliminate 625,000 pounds of foam from its stores every year.
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They can cause a lot of different problems. One of the things we see with that is significant damage to the liver, a lot of times."