A new venture: Zenda Farms Preserve
January 2016 Cover Story: Economic Outlook
Slow and steady
growth wins the race

OUTLOOK 2016 / MILITARY: A soldier salutes during the presentation of the colors last year in an activation ceremony for the 10th Mountain Division Divarty. As the post avoided major cuts in 2015, Fort Drum officials remain positive that 2016 will be a healthy year for one of region’s top economic sectors. Photo by Amanda Morrison, NNY Business.
Despite a few challenges, experts say the region is on pace for a positive year in 2016. Six sectors of the north country’s economy are ripe with opportunities for growth.
By Karee Magee, NNY Business
A grim fate cast a pall over the north country in early 2015, as federal budget sequestration threatened to cut up to 16,000 personnel from Fort Drum in an effort by the army to trim its active duty force from 490,000 to 450,000 by fiscal year 2017. [Read more…]
December 2015 Feature Story: Agribusiness
An organic endeavor

David W. Van Pelt II holds Homestead Heritage Cheese’s first wheel of cheese, standing at the vat with father-in-law W. Edward Walldroff, the owner of organic dairy farm Homestead Fields, LaFargeville. Photo by Justin Sorensen, NNY Business.
LaFargeville cheese plant starts production
By Ted Booker, NNY Business [Read more…]