$8m in state funding secured
for new home for FLCC viticulture program
via Business Incubator Association of New York State, Inc.

Our member the Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park (The Technology Farm) announced that $8 million in state funding has been secured to help construct a new, state-of-the-art center at The Technology Farm for the Viticulture Program of Finger Lakes Community College (FLCC).

The funding was announced by state Senator Michael Nozzolio, in conjunction with Gov. Cuomo and Assemblyman Brian Kolb. For more information, see the latest newsletter for The Technology Farm or embedded video from Sen. Nozzolio after the break.

This associate's degree program fits extremely well with the grape genetics research at Cornell's NYS Agricultural Experiment Station and its partners in the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS), currently across the road from the Technology Farm. Long-term plans call for a new ARS facility in the park.

3rd Annual Open House

To see more images from the March 23, 2012 open house please visit our facebook album.

Top:Mike Coia (Seneca BioEnergy, Right) with Darrell J. Aubertine (Left), New York State Agriculture Commissioner.

BALANCED, FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE STATE BUDGET
IS ANOTHER MAJOR STEP FORWARD IN RESTORING NEW YORK
By State Senator Mike Nozzolio

In just two short years, New York State has gone from being the poster child of dysfunctional government to one that is being lauded as a National example of how state government can and should work.

Today, my colleagues in the State Legislature and I continued this remarkable transformation by adopting a balanced, fiscally responsible State budget for the second year in a row! This budget, which contains NO new or increase in taxes, was completed in a full two days before the start of the new fiscal year. For the first time in recent history, we have a budget in place that reduces overall spending for the second year in a row!

This Budget continues our efforts to promote regional, long-term job development and partnerships to create more private sector jobs.

One of these important job development projects that will take place right here in our region is a major expansion of Finger Lakes Community College’s Viticulture and Wine Technology program at the Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park in Geneva. Working closely with...read more