Farming

New York’s Farm Workers Fair Laborers Practices Act mandates that all farmworkers, including foreign visa employees, receive overtime after working 60…

A helicopter will be flying over farm fields in western Massachusetts this week and next dropping what’s called a cover crop in hopes of protecting the…

By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United…

Today on Food Friday we discuss farming and farmers markets. In the studio are three farmers. First up is Dale-Ila Riggs of The Berry Patch in…

The number of female farmers is on the rise across New York. A Center for Economic Growth analysis of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s newly released…

Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a farmworkers’ rights bill into law Wednesday that will for the first time give the workers benefits other employees…

An amendment to the federal Farm Bill passed by the House and Senate is intended to support farmers and the craft beer industry.Senator Kirsten…

A nonprofit organization is making emergency loans available to farmers in part of western Massachusetts who suffered losses due to the weather this…

A new effort to cultivate the Berkshire farming and food-production economy has emerged in Great Barrington. The Berkshire Agricultural Ventures nonprofit…