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Regional partnership takes a chance on New York chickpeas


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A Schuyler County-Cornell pilot project could help New York farmers diversify their crops with chickpeas and give regional food manufacturers a cost-effective, local source for the popular legume.
Regional partnership takes a chance on New York chickpeas
June 9, 2021
Carl Taber knelt down at the edge of a field on his 500-acre farm, took a wrench to his planting machine, and did something he had done only a few times before. He calibrated the equipment to plant chickpeas – a crop rarely grown in upstate New York.
“I’m pretty excited about the potential for a new crop,” says Taber, who planted 1,000 pounds of chickpeas in May on a 5-acre test plot on his farm in Mecklenburg, in Schuyler County, New York, about 30 minutes west of Ithaca. “Just because it hasn’t been tried here doesn’t mean it won’t work here.” ....

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