Standing Committee on Agriculture

Albany, NY – With a compromise reached on the issue of farm worker labor in New York (A8419/S6578), Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo introduced new legislation to create an agricultural investment task force (A8347). The short-term task force would develop...

Albany, NY – State Senator Jen Metzger and Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo are calling on the Department of Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) to reconsider a proposal that would hurt New York’s dairy farmers. In a joint letter sent this week, the...

Albany, NY – As she enters her eighth term representing the 123rd Assembly District, Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo will take on a new leadership position. Speaker Carl Heastie announced Tuesday that he has selected Lupardo to Chair the Committee on Agriculture...

Albany, NY – Assembly Agriculture Committee Chair Bill Magee (D-Nelson) announced a budget agreement that fully funds critical farm research, education and assistance programs aimed at helping family farmers and strengthening rural New York’s farm...

Assemblyman Bill Magee (D-Nelson) participated in Governor Cuomo’s yogurt summit at the Capitol. The event discussed ways New York State can help grow and support the yogurt trade by loosening restrictions on dairy farmers to boost milk production to...