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“It was really difficult because when you’re trying to run a business and you can’t have a bank account, it doesn’t really work."
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Residents and visitors to the Finger Lakes have the opportunity this weekend to visit working farms.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a farmworkers’ rights bill into law Wednesday that will for the first time give the workers benefits other employees get, including time off and overtime pay.
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HARRISBURG, PA (WITF) - Alyssa Collins said she has been fielding around five phone calls every day from people with questions about hemp--and that's not…
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Assemblyman Stephen Hawley, a Republican from Western New York, comes from a long line of farmers. He predicts the new requirements will be too onerous and that farms will close.
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"If you look at the decline in milk consumption in our schools over the past nine years as a result of that misguided legislation, it actually tracks with the financial decline within the dairy industry."
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"To all the workers - this is a tool for you that you can use this to have a voice, to improve your working conditions, to fight against wage theft, bad housing, discrimination in the workplace. This is something you can use to change that."
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"China (has) used the American consumer and producer for many years by creating barriers to letting our products in their country, while they want to overwhelm us with their products.”
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"If a beekeeper is able to take a honeybee swarm, they can care for them and manage them if they need it, instead of having these colonies kind of inhabit people's homes."
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The New York Farm Bureau said farmers need more workers and it wants the President to consider an expansion of a visa program.