Albany, NY – Numerous New York State counties have passed resolutions recently in favor of maintaining the overtime threshold at 60 hours for family farms and eliminating the Farm Laborers Wage Board. Those counties are listed below, in addition to…
1 in 4 Farmers Say New York’s 60-Hour Overtime Threshold Has Made Farming More Difficult Albany, NY – Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) released a new report on October 19, 2022, How New York Farmers Adapted to…
“New York’s agriculture community is deeply disappointed in Commissioner Reardon’s ill-informed decision to lower the overtime threshold for our family farms. This decision threatens the security of our food supply, the retention of our skilled farmworkers, and the future of…
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…
Click here to download a recording of the Grow NY Farms virtual press conference Albany, NY – After today’s release of the Farm Laborers Wage Board report, members of the Grow NY Farms Coalition called on Governor Hochul and Department of Labor…
The Business Council of New York State, National Federation of Independent Business, and Upstate United sent a joint letter to Governor Hochul on August 29 urging her support of Senate Bill S.9509. This bill would repeal the act Section 674-a…
The following letter to the editor was published in the New York Daily News on Sunday, August 28, 2022. Don’t forget about the pressures on small farms New Paltz, N.Y.: Re “A farmer who’s for fair pay for farmworkers” (op-ed,…
The following Watertown Daily Times editorial was originally published on August 25, 2022. Like everyone else, farmers throughout New York have felt the pain of inflation. This has made the idea of lowering the overtime threshold for farm workers more…
The following op-ed was originally published in the Eagle Observer, Eagle Star Review, and Baldwinsville Messenger on August 24, 2022. New York Vegetable Growers: Are We Being Driven out of Business? Some of the best vegetables in the world are…
The following letter to the editor was originally published in the Batavia Daily News on August 20, 2022. To the Editor: The first time I came to the United States, I went to a farm in Delaware, then I went…