Posts by James Dean
Black land owners account for just ~1% of private Northeast forestland. For Sydney Antonio, a love of forests took root during childhood summers visiting upstate New York, where she and…
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A recent New York Senate meeting featured Cornell experts speaking on the importance of diversity in farm leadership and emphasizing the numeric discrepancy between minority farm employment and ownership. Only…
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Experts predict scarce labor and higher wages this year. New York state farm operators can expect a tight labor market and rising wages in the year ahead, in addition to continued pandemic precautions, debate…
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On a recent morning at JADA Hill Farm in Deposit, New York, Ziggy, a 5-month-old Nigerian dwarf goat, playfully head-butted a sister goat from her perch on a sun-drenched slab…
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