{"id":378323,"date":"2026-10-20T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378323\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:18:08","slug":"new-york-awards-48-5-million-to-protect-farmland-across-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378323\/","title":{"rendered":"New York awards $48.5 million to protect farmland across the state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALBANY, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Gov. Kathy Hochul says New York is investing a record amount to keep farms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The state is handing out more than $48.5 million to 43 farms across New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The money comes from the Farmland Protection Program, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials made the announcement at Heer Farm in Onondaga County, a farm that has been running for more than a century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The grants will protect more than 16,000 acres of farmland, keeping it in agriculture for good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State leaders say more than $15 million is still available and will be awarded on a rolling basis.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Gov. Kathy Hochul says New York is investing a record amount to keep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9529,138959,426,237,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-378323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-farm","tag-farmland-protection-program","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-money","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}