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Tioga County crowns 50th Dairy Princess
Lee Newspapers 
Posted on July 5, 2013
Submitted by Ruth Strong, Committee Chairman The 50th Tioga County Dairy Princess Coronation was held on June 1, at the Countryside Community Center in Owego, NY. One-hundred-ten dinner guests were present for the delicious dinner as the three candidates presented their milk promotion speeches with ...
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New York Farm Bureau President’s statement on Senate passage of Immigration reform
Lee Newspapers 
Posted on July 5, 2013
“Today’s (June 27) passage of comprehensive immigration reform is a major milestone for New York’s farmers. It addresses critical short and long term needs that will better provide a stable workforce on our farms. Those needs include allowing employees who are already skilled and working in this sta...
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Statement from Agriculture Secretary Vilsack on Senate Immigration Bill passage
Lee Newspapers 
Posted on July 5, 2013
On June 27, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement on the Senate passage of the Immigration Bill: “Today’s strong bipartisan vote in the U.S. Senate to fix America’s broken immigration system is good news for farmers and ranchers, good news for farm workers, and good news for...
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Letter to the Editor: Who Neeed who?
Lee Newspapers 
Posted on July 5, 2013
Dear Editor, Who really needs who? One may ask this question. If all the U.S. Senators and Congressmen were to take a one year vacation, what would the consequences be? Some may say that the country may be better off, less damage! Life would go on. What would happen if every Farmer (dairy; grain; li...
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Letter to the Editor: Dairy Farmers
Lee Newspapers 
Posted on July 5, 2013
Dear Editor, Dairy farmers across the nation are once again left without effective farm bill legislation. Another year of hard work by dairy farm groups to develop and promote their policy ideas has been ignored by Congress. There can be no excuse for the way Congress is treating our nation’s dairy ...
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Letter to the Editor: Thoughts on the failure of the House Farm Bill
Lee Newspapers 
Posted on July 5, 2013
On Thursday, June 20th, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on the House version of the 2013 Farm Bill, HR-1947. It received a solid trouncing, going down in defeat, 195 to 234. Obviously, the House leadership is challenged with a House majority that defies being led, compounded by an inherent i...
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Chenango County recycles 4,000 pounds of plastic
Lee Newspapers 
Posted on July 5, 2013
By working with the Recycling Agricultural Plastics Project this season, Chenango County has successfully recycled 4,000 pounds of plastic that would otherwise have been sent to the landfill. Since February RAPP and CCE have been encouraging farms that wish to participate to put “plastics best manag...
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Officers elected at Mohawk Valley FFA’s Annual Banquet
Elizabeth A. Tomlin 
Posted on July 5, 2013
Nearly 70 members and guests attended the Mohawk Valley FFA’s 75th Annual Banquet, which was held on June 14 at the Oppenheim-Ephratah School. Retiring Chapter President Kaitlyn Isaac, who has been recently installed as District 5 President in May, welcomed the guests and addressed her colleagues. “...
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Precision Agriculture
Steve Wagner 
Posted on July 5, 2013
A cluster of people — the curious, the meticulous, those who were ‘just wondering’ and, of course, farmers — gathered on the edge of the field at Penn State’s Research Station in Landisville, Lancaster County PA. A PSU Extension Educator, agronomist Jeff Graybill, is preparing a test flight of a dro...
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