New York Farm Bureau

Albany County’s temporary pause on the use of human biosolids on farmland remains unchanged after the New York State Legislature failed to pass a 5-year ban.

The New York Farm Bureau this week released its national legislative priorities, targeting legislation it says would help New York’s farmers and rural communities.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a new law allowing small distilleries, cideries and makers of mead to ship directly to consumers.

(Airs 07/04/24 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Deanna Fox, CEO of the New York Farm Bureau, about about how farms are doing economically, how the recent legislative session benefited farms based on what passed and didn’t pass in the budget, and much more.

Leaders of the New York Farm Bureau have outlined their priorities for the legislative session in Albany.

The New York Farm Bureau has released its annual list of state legislative priorities.

The New York Farm Laborers Wage Board formally sent its recommendation to the state labor commissioner Tuesday that the farmworker overtime threshold be lowered. Farm labor advocates are calling for the recommendations to be approved as soon as possible while farmers say the process was stacked against them.

The New York Farm Bureau is outlining its national priorities for 2022.

Members of the New York Farm Bureau are reacting to a state labor board decision to back a ten-year phase-in of a 40-hour work week for farm laborers. They warn that could severely diminish the state’s agricultural industry, which is largely made up of small, family-owned farms.

The state’s Farm Laborers Wage Board bypassed a legal deadline of December 15 to decide whether farm workers should receive overtime pay after working 40 hours a week. The state Department of Labor says it will instead hold more hearings on the issue, beginning in January.