http://www.newyorkagconnection.com Your Daily Source for New York Ag & Farm News, Markets, Weather, Auctions and Real Estate 180 http://www.newyorkagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=100 http://www.newyorkagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=100 The 2008 Organic Production Survey counted 827 USDA-certified or exempt organic farms in the state of New York, according to Steve Ropel, director of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York Field Office. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 7:45:22 CST http://www.newyorkagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=101 http://www.newyorkagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=101 Staff from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will be at the Empire State Plaza in Albany on March 3 to collect unused and unwanted pharmaceuticals from area residents for proper disposal, Commissioner Pete Grannis announced. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 7:45:22 CST http://www.newyorkagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=102 http://www.newyorkagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=102 Pro-Fac Cooperative, Inc. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 7:45:22 CST http://www.newyorkagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=103 http://www.newyorkagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=103 Bunge Limited announced that it has completed the acquisition of certain interests in the Moema Group cluster of sugarcane mills in Brazil. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 7:45:22 CST http://www.newyorkagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=104 http://www.newyorkagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=104 Haifa Smoked Fish, located in Queens, N. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 7:45:22 CST