By Kelsey O’Shea, Ag Business Management Specialist, Cornell North Country Regional Ag Team As you have heard and read, it has been established that all essential businesses must complete a “reopening safety plan”. Although ...
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New York Forward is the state’s plan to begin re-opening in phases as regions of the state achieve certain COVID-19 management metrics. An important part of New York Forward is for all businesses to ...
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New York Farm Bureau (NYFB) is launching a new database to match farm employers with potential employees. See the alert released by NYFB today: During this time of uncertainty, we understand that our farms ...
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Thursday May 14, 2-3 PM Eastern Join via Zoom (see information below) As New York State municipalities and businesses start to consider reopening, greenhouse and nursery operations and retail greenhouses need to create plans ...
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“Never give in. Never, never, never.” – Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940-1945. Listen to the whole speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5q19HiNHSg On October 29, 1941, Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, Belgium and the Netherlands ...
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Latest update on Payroll Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) and opportunities for farms from: Elizabeth Higgins, Nicole Tommell, and Myron Thurston all from Cornell Cooperative Extension. For PPP, this update ...
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New York state is marking the path for businesses in parts of the state to begin re-opening in phases, see the New York Forward website. Phase 1 of the plan includes the parts of ...
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Our friends at NYCAMH prepared a great new resource with guidance for transporting farm workers in buses, trucks, and other vehicles. Find it here: https://www.nycamh.org/news.php?id=841
By Elizabeth Higgins, Cornell Cooperative Extension If you are an ag business that was unable to take advantage of the SBA EIDL Loan/Advance Program there is good news! The EIDL Advance/Loan portal will be ...
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Updated: 5/4/20 Much confusion exists about the availability for work of H-2A workers who are newly arriving from a foreign country. This post will attempt to clarify the issue. 14-day Quarantine Early in the ...
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