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Dairy is a significant part of the agricultural output of New York state. New York ranks forth out of the fifty states in dairy production. The state's nearly 4,000 dairy farms annually produce over 15 billion pounds of milk. [1]
Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture is a non-profit farm, education and research center located in Pocantico Hills, New York. The center was created on 80 acres (320,000 m 2) formerly belonging to the Rockefeller estate. Stone Barns promotes sustainable agriculture, local food, and community-supported agriculture. Stone Barns is a four ...
Agriculture is a major component of the New York economy. [1] As of the 2012 census of agriculture, there were over 35,000 farms covering an area of 7 million acres (28,000 km 2) which contributed $5.4 billion in gross sales value and $1.2 billion in net farm income to the national economy.
Sep. 30—Students from around the country toured a Schoharie County dairy farm virtually Friday, Sept. 30. Chris, John and Frank Albano, of Albano Farms in Stamford, let students see their cow ...
The dairy industry in the United States includes the farms, cooperatives, and companies that produce milk, cheese and related products such as milking machines, and distribute them to the consumer. By 1925, the United States had 1.5-2 million dairy cows, each producing an average of 4200 lb of milk per year.
The Chaseholm Farm Creamery is a 350-acre (140 ha) family-run farm in Pine Plains, New York, on the borders of Dutchess and Columbia Counties in New York's Hudson Valley, protected by the Columbia Land Conservancy. [1] [2] It works with many farms in the surrounding Hudson Valley as part of the local food movement. The Chaseholm Farm Creamery ...
[49]: 312 Briarcliff Farms had three stores in New York City and stores in Greenwich, Connecticut, Yonkers, Dobbs Ferry and Tarrytown. [70] The farm's first New York City store was in Manhattan's Windsor Arcade, at Fifth Avenue and 46th Street, and it had an office in the Seymour Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. [71]
The museum has more than 23,000 artifacts reflecting 19th century farm life in central New York. [2] They are housed in over two dozen buildings across the campus. [3] The museum also includes working exhibits. There are skilled workers printing real documents, such as the rules of baseball, at the print shop, and weavers producing cloth at looms.