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GENEVA — Sam Peachey, who started raising free-range chickens and eggs in 2015, found himself financially strained by 2019.

With Cornell's help, an Amish farmer grows shiitake mushrooms and solves his financial woes, and an entrepreneur and a chef, both from China, use the mushrooms for a sauce that is now on the market. 

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Anu Rangarajan testifies during a New York State Senate hearing hosted jointly by the Committees on Agriculture, Labor and Social Services. Cornell experts advocate for ag diversity, food security April 20, 2021 Only about 1% of New York state’s nearly 58,000 farm owners identify as Hispanic or Latinx, according to the Census of Agriculture, despite more than 80,000 such employees providing an essential backbone to the state’s farm sector. “They�...