18 Agriculture and Business Groups Sign on to Letter to Stay at $15 Letter Sent to Governor Hochul, Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins, and Speaker Heastie Albany, NY – The Grow NY Farms Coalition today sent a letter to Governor Hochul, Majority…
ALBANY, NY – Today, farmers from the Grow NY Farms coalition travelled from across New York to the state’s Capitol to hand-deliver hundreds of letters to Governor Kathy Hochul. The letters, written by both farmers and farmworkers whose livelihoods are threatened…
Dairy farmer Jeff King told the Albany Times Union that a lower overtime threshold will be "the final nail in the coffin for small family-run farms like his." “If a farm worker came to me and said they only wanted…
New York State Assembly Member Chris Tague, who represents farm country in the Hudson and Schoharie Valleys, wrote an opinion piece in the NY Daily News. He highlighted that many farmworkers have already left New York State seeking more hours…