Agriculture

Wayne County is diverse in its agricultural base. The countryside is plentiful in orchards, vegetables, dairy farms, grain operations and nurseries. Cornell Cooperative Extension provides education for these ag businesses.

Cornell Cooperative Extension Wayne County supports four regional agriculture teams and provides support for the “backyard” grower through our Master Gardener Program. By providing local county dollars into the regional agriculture program, Wayne County farmers and agriservice have access to more than 17 specialists in specific commodity areas. Check out the “Commercial Agriculture” page to get more information.

Sign up for CCE Wayne's Ag E-Newsletter - CCE Wayne will be starting a monthly digest called Weed It & Reap. The goal of this is to consolidate Ag related programming happening in and around the county in one place, as well as providing farmers and community members with grant and government program deadlines and opportunities. We will also be highlighting a farm each month with a small write up about their operation and history, what they produce and where they sell. The idea of this is to show appreciation to the many hard-working farmers in our county and promote local food purchasing. This digest will include a crop of the month, which will focus on an in-season crop and pair it with recipes suggested from our nutrition program here at CCE. Lastly, it will contain a section highlighting new Ag related research and technology. This concise newsletter should take no more than 10 minutes to read through. We are open to suggestions on how to improve this as we go forward!  If you are interested in receiving this, please register for it here: https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/WeedItandReap_254. The current release dates of these issues will be the first Friday of each month going forward.

2026 Ag Enrollment is here! You can sign up by following this link Cornell Cooperative Extension - Event Registration for Programs or by reaching out to our office to request a paper or emailed form. More information about our regional agriculture teams is available on our Ag Specialist Page through the link above for "Commercial Agriculture". Sign up to get all the specialist teams’ newsletter and educational activities announcement. CCE Wayne now has information for growers of all commodities: dairy, livestock, field crops, vegetables, fruit and wine grapes.

For more specific information on agriculture in Wayne County, look in the NYS Ag Statistics web page.

Last updated August 5, 2026