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Judy Wright Special to The Citizen The 33,438 farms in New York state are a vital economic component of the state’s economy and are part of the 2 million farms in the United States. Every five years, the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service completes a Census of Agriculture, with the most recent one conducted in 2017. Significant amounts of data are collected from participating farms and then intensively analyzed, with the findings made available down to the county level. The USDA recently released a typology report from the 2017 Ce...

Judy Wright Special to The Citizen There seems to be some confusion about various terms related to weather, climate and warming. During conversations we will interchange these terms, and then it seems to really muddy the waters regarding what is happening to our environment. "Global warming" is a term that many shy away from using, but in reality it is used to tell us what is happening globally. In this case, the increase of the average temperature globally. While there may be locally or even regionally colder places, it is the global average that is meaningful. "Climate" refers t...

Judy Wright Special to The Citizen The recent discovery of a population of spotted lanternflies in the Ithaca area is cause for concern because their potential to create havoc with both our agricultural crops and landscape. Yet for the past decade or so, the hemlock woolly adelgid — a tiny invasive insect originating in East Asia capable of destroying eastern hemlock trees in forests as well as ornamental hemlock trees found in residential landscaping — has been slowly creeping into the Finger Lakes. A map showing their presence by town is located at dec.ny.gov/docs/lands_for...