The following letter to the editor was originally published on September 12, 2022. The article on the Wage Board overtime recommendation quoted an activist as saying all the profits in agriculture are made on “…the backs of Black and brown…
Statement from Grow NY Farms: "The Farm Laborers Wage Board voted two-to-one to recommend lowering the overtime threshold to 40 hours a week over the next decade, despite 70% of the testimony made by farmers and farmworkers who asked for…
Video testimony from farmers and farmworkers across the state available below Albany, NY – Hundreds of farmers, farmworkers, and independent researchers from Cornell University and Farm Credit East participated in virtual Farm Laborers Wage Board hearings in January. Participants…
With the New Year comes new opportunities for farmworkers, farm owners, and their families to share data, challenges, opportunities, and their experiences farming in New York State. The agriculture community looks forward to participating in the three virtual Farm Laborers…
A new editorial in the Post Journal credits the latest Cornell University report on the farm labor overtime threshold as justification for it to stay at 60. The editorial read in part, "Cornell University researchers, after all, are no dummies.…
“Over the past few months, it’s become clear that New York’s agriculture community — both farmworkers and farmers — support keeping the farm labor overtime threshold at 60 hours. As we’ve said, workers want more hours so they can earn…
The Buffalo News printed an editorial December 12, 2021 calling for the New York State Farm Labor Wage Board to keep the 60-hour overtime threshold. It read in part, "For farming to remain viable in upstate New York, a state…
Study finds New York farms and farmworkers will exit agriculture and state The following statement can be attributed to Grow NY Farms: “The Cornell University report makes it clear. Any lowering of the overtime threshold will unquestionably harm New…
December is familiar territory when it comes to deciding the fate of the 60-hour farm labor overtime threshold. As you may recall, the New York State Farm Labor Wage Board voted two-to-one last New Year’s Eve to table the decision…
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…