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Updated: Nov. 22, 2023 at 5:31 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
There’s perhaps no bigger meal than the traditional Thanksgiving feast. And it’s important to prepare your food safely to avoid causing illness to yourself or your guests.
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Updated: Nov. 15, 2023 at 6:52 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
The nation’s milk supply is in good standing, but there’s a shortage of the cartons they put it in.
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Updated: Nov. 8, 2023 at 6:55 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
A local tractor pull competitor makes it big at the state level.
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Updated: Nov. 1, 2023 at 6:27 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
There is a push underway to preserve farmland in northern New York.
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Updated: Oct. 25, 2023 at 6:40 AM EDT
|By 7 News Staff
When you think of Halloween, you might think of bats.
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Updated: Oct. 18, 2023 at 6:05 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
The original deadline for farmers to apply for the program was Monday, but now the USDA is extending that deadline to October 30.
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Updated: Oct. 11, 2023 at 5:41 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
For months, Chicory Hill Farm owner Allen Funk nurtured and planted what he thought were bell pepper seeds.
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Updated: Oct. 4, 2023 at 7:05 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
October 1-7 is National 4-H Week.
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Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 5:39 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Calling all hunters: the time has come to bust out the camouflage.
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Updated: Sep. 13, 2023 at 6:52 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
The Food Resiliency Program is back and bigger than ever.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2023 at 6:51 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
This weekend is Local Foods Weekend in St. Lawrence County, a chance for you to explore how your food is made.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2023 at 7:16 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
The New York State Fair outside Syracuse has many attractions, but one of the bigger — and butterier ones — is the 55th annual butter sculpture.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2023 at 6:34 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Summertime is perfect for grabbing an ice cream and in Lewis County, it also supports dairy farmers.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2023 at 7:20 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Marked with a distinct black-spotted body and long antennae, the beetle is blueish in color and fatal to maple trees.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2023 at 6:31 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Open Farm Day is this Saturday from 10 AM to 3 PM. You can visit 13 farms in Lewis County, see first hand what farmers do.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2023 at 7:01 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
The Gouverneur and St. Lawrence County Fair has been a means of showing farm animals since its beginning.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2023 at 7:00 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Believe it or not, there’s three acres of produce growing in a parking lot in Lyons Falls.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2023 at 6:02 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
With flavors like lemon and pistachio, bacon and bourbon, caramel and cayenne, Apothecary Chocolates in Colton are unlike any other.
Updated: Jul. 12, 2023 at 5:45 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
The Klock Family Farm in LaFargeville has all the components of a typical dairy operation, but takes a more modern approach in how it operates.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2023 at 5:57 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Dayna Lancaster, owner of Rock Hollow Farm in Hermon, introduces us to her “boys.”
Updated: Jun. 28, 2023 at 6:33 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Amethyst, quartz, vivianite, hexagonite — these spectacular crystals weren’t found at the ends of the earth, they were found right here in the north country.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2023 at 6:27 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Northern Limits Farm started as a way for Joe Eisele, Madison Laubsher, and their families to grow organic food. But five years ago, they added another crop.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2023 at 7:13 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
There is an influx of Amish coming to the north country.
Updated: Jun. 7, 2023 at 5:46 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
From the grass to the glass, there are several ways to grow mushrooms.
Updated: May. 31, 2023 at 7:31 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
June is National Dairy month and there are many agriculture-related things going on, so grab a pencil and paper.
Updated: May. 24, 2023 at 6:57 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
The Watertown Farm and Craft Market opened for the season Wednesday.
Updated: May. 17, 2023 at 6:49 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
The 2023-24 state budget has granted $300,000 to research new topics.
Updated: May. 10, 2023 at 6:46 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
For more than a year the U.S. has been battling its biggest outbreak of avian influenza.
Updated: May. 3, 2023 at 7:06 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Researchers are looking at other trees to tap.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2023 at 6:49 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Nothing spoils a good walk outside quite like returning home with a tick.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2023 at 8:06 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
With Earth Day coming up this Saturday, we visit one farmer who's planting thousands of trees.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2023 at 6:35 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
A Potsdam dairy farm is helping find ways for calves to grow into healthier cows.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2023 at 6:15 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
We're talking about bunnies, but not the kind that hops.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 6:11 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Trout fishing is allowed year-round, but you can only harvest the fish from April 1 to October 15.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 7:17 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Northern New York has an infestation that the rest of the world doesn’t: the alfalfa snout beetle, which ruins corn and alfalfa crops.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2023 at 6:06 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
Every year, White’s Farm Supply in Lowville gives hundreds of farmers and their families a chance to take a load off before the hustle-bustle of spring planting.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 7:00 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
Farmers across the world deal with a pest called a seed corn maggot, but there are limited options for avoiding it.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2023 at 7:12 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
With springtime around the corner, farmers are preparing to plant their crops. Part of that preparation is getting rid of weeds.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 6:01 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
It’s sweet, it’s chewy, and it’s easy to make.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 5:55 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
Veterans face struggles when it comes to producing marijuana.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2023 at 6:10 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
Gardening probably isn’t a top priority this early into the year, but there are a few ways you can protect your plants from Old Man Winter.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 6:00 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
In this week's Ag Weekly, Emily Griffin talks with local forest rangers about tracking down more workers.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 6:45 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
This summer, Madrid will be the go-to spot for lovers of Allis Chalmers tractors.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 5:37 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
It’s that time of year. North country residents are decking their halls with Christmas wreaths, and many of them come from the hands of Shari Simmons.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 6:17 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
After his military career, Justin Battles was ready for a new life growing new life.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 6:03 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
For most local crops the growing season has finished. But for one — saffron — the harvest is just beginning.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 6:49 AM EST
|By Emily Griffin
It’s a good year for dairy farmers when it comes to milk prices, but there is a catch.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 6:18 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
At Old McDonald’s Farm in Sackets Harbor there are four speedy swine about to wrap up their racing season.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 6:08 AM EDT
|By Emily Griffin
Emily Griffin heads to Deer River Cranberry Farm in Brasher Falls to learn how the berries go from the vine to grocery stores.