Agriculture

Connecticut dairy farmers say they are experiencing a fifth consecutive year of depressed milk prices. They want the state to provide financial aid to…

East Hampton plans to fine or jail farmers if they don’t plant cover crops after a harvest. They want to prevent soil erosion and the open fields that can…

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

Steve Jarmok walks around a clapboard white farmhouse in Enfield, Connecticut, where he grew up. Just past the green lawn, rows of greenhouses hold…

About 200 people — many of them farmers — met in Vernon, Connecticut, Wednesday night to learn how to grow hemp.The state launched a pilot program earlier…

The production of industrial hemp is now legal in Connecticut – after a considerable push from farmers. Governor Ned Lamont signed the measure into law…

Supporters hope that their efforts to change an 80-year-old law that excludes farm workers from many of the protections afforded to other workers in New…

Business in one historic town in eastern Connecticut has always revolved around the ocean. Now, a 250-year-old farm in the area wants to diversify the…

Jennifer Halsey Dupree’s peaches are just now starting to blossom. She owns a 60-acre orchard on eastern Long Island. Right now, the work is tranquil,…

New York will bolster its agricultural industry with $33 million lawmakers had allocated for local technical assistance and promotional programs in the…