Paterson: Ag needs help and is important
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Paterson pointed out that the state has about 35,000 farms that encompass 7.6 million acres, or about a quarter of all land in the state. It generates $3.6 billion annually.
The state produces more cottage cheese than any other state, is second in cabbage and apples and third in the production of milk, maple syrup, grapes, sweet corn, snap beans, and cauliflower.
The counties he says needs help are Albany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Columbia, Dutchess, Erie, Fulton, Genesee, Greene, Monroe, Onondaga, Ontario, Orange, Orleans, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Schoharie, Schuyler, Seneca, Ulster, Wayne and Westchester.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
