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Agriculture is one of the North Country's main economic drivers. We've started checking in every month with Kitty O'Neil, agronomist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension, to find out how farmers and crops are faring throughout the seasons.
The recent mild snap allowed some maple producers to get an early start producing syrup last week. But a Lake Placid maple expert says smaller producers might want to wait for a longer thaw before firing up their sugarhouses. Adam Wild, director of...
Some of the largest maple syrup production areas had a poor season last year, and they're hoping to make up for it this spring. In places like Vermont, production was off by just over 21%, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of...
In this artisanal age of homemade beer, craft brewers are looking to extract flavors from a variety of local ingredients. Beer made with maple or birch syrups is popular in the North Country. But many times, those iconic flavors are mostly masked by the...
The announcement came after failed attempts by Great River Energy, which serves 1.7 million electricity customers in Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin, to sell or even give away Coal Creek Station.