Farmers: Crops doing well, despite weather challenges

... summer, July and August, it just got awful dry." The mid-Hudson Valley is home to more than 1,000 farms. Dutchess County has 656 farms totaling 102,360 acres and Ulster County has 501 farms totaling 75,205 acres, according to the U.S. Department ...

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