Janice Handy, former editor of Country Folks Farm Weekly newspapers, passed away on Saturday April 13, 2013 at her residence surrounded by her loving family. Back in 1972, Mrs. Handy, began working for Lee Publications as editor of Country Folks, a weekly farm newspaper, to help her family’s busines...

Since 2009, I have been following New York City “food movement” groups. In 2009, the very week that Northeast dairy farmers chartered buses to Washington, D.C. to seek help, New York City was hosting a conference on agriculture called “Food and Climate Change.” Telephoning conference organizers at a...

At recent dairy resiliency workshops held by CCE CNY Dairy & Field Crop specialists and PRO-Dairy, Dr. Roger G. Ellis, DVM, of the NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets, presented updated information on a multi-drug resistant disease emerging in Northeast cattle. “Salmonella Dublin is most commo...