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We did find good choices when we cooked some 620 full-fat and lower-fat hot dogs from 23 well-known brands and leading retailers on a concession stand-style grill with rollers. Today, according to Department of Agriculture standards, they re made of beef, pork, poultry, or a blend of all of those, which can contain no more than 30 percent fat, plus water used to cool the meat as it is ground, binders such as nonfat dry milk or cereal, salt, sweeteners, and seasonings. While three of the...

Schuyler County Partnership for Economic Development (SCOPED), Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County and the Schuyler County Chamber of Commerce are offering grants of up to $1,000 per project to Schuyler County farmers to implement concise agritourism projects on their farms. Schuyler County Partnership for Economic Development (SCOPED), Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County and the Schuyler County Chamber of Commerce are offering grants of up to $1,000 per project...

Trimming back new growth and removing new flowers as they form is an excellent way to redirect the plants' energy to maturing the fruit already on them rather than producing more. Fruit forming from now on would not have a chance to mature before that happens. Corn earworms cause the worst of their damage by feeding on the fresh silk and boring into the tips of the ears of corn once the silk starts to dry. Because any fruit they produce probably will not have time to mature before cold...

Secretary of Agriculture Ann) Veneman yesterday and asked that the USDA purchase any cattle prior to depopulation, so farmers don't suffer further financial hardship. Backing away from an earlier proposal to cut millions of dollars from the state's public-school system, anti-tax activist Tim Eyman is instead launching an initiative to cut $550 million from local property taxes. If Eyman collects the necessary quarter-million signatures to put the measure on the fall ballot, we'll be...