Agriculture

The $400 million federal program is being funded through the American Rescue Plan. The goal is for local food businesses to help those that are food insecure. Connecticut is the second state to strike a deal with USDA.

As capacity shortages in slaughterhouses complicate business for livestock farmers, two specialty sausage makers are starting their own animal processing facility.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday that she hasn’t decided if she’ll accept a recommendation from a state wage board to lower the number of hours farm workers have to work to earn overtime in New York.

With hundreds of farm owners, farmworkers and independent researchers attending the hearings, over 60% of those who testified wanted the wage board to keep the threshold at 60 hours.

The state’s Farm Laborers Wage Board bypassed a legal deadline of Dec. 15 to decide whether farmworkers should receive overtime pay after working 40 hours a week.

A state wage board is set to consider lowering the overtime threshold from 60 hours.

Suffolk County will invest $100 million over the next decade to preserve farms on Long Island that are at risk of closing.The county would purchase the…

Officials have relaunched the Connecticut Grown program with a new logo and brand to focus on food produced in the state. The Connecticut Department of…

While many businesses were forced to close their doors during the pandemic shut down earlier this year, farmers markets stayed open. Their produce was in…

All eight counties in Connecticut have received disaster declarations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a result of ongoing drought…