New York Farmers Face Uphill Battle Against Mounting Regulatory Burdens

Farmers discuss how increasing regulations affect their operations at an event held by Orange County Chamber of Commerce.

Joel Crist (L), Paul Ruszkiewica (C), and Matthew Garzia at an Orange County Chamber of Commerce event in Montgomery, N.Y., on Nov. 9, 2023. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times

The mounting regulatory burdens on the shoulders of New York farmers took center stage at an Orange County Chamber of Commerce membership meeting on Nov. 9.

Paul Ruszkiewicz, a fourth-generation farmer in Warwick, has significantly downsized his onion business in the past few years because of increasing labor and food safety costs.