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Livingston County farm leader highlights digesters, warns solar and overtime changes threaten dairy economics
Summary
A presenter from Noblehurst Farms described local farm scale, a methane digester that takes 15,000 tons of food waste per month and said Livingston County agriculture generates roughly $300 million in sales. He warned that solar land conversion and a phased overtime law lowering the threshold to 40 hours by 2032 could squeeze margins.
An unnamed presenter representing Noblehurst Farms and the Livingston County Farm Bureau outlined the county s agricultural profile and renewable-energy operations and urged policy attention to mounting pressures on dairy producers.
The presenter described Noblehurst Farms as a seventh-generation operation that milks about 2,000 cows and operates an on‑farm methane digester and a subsidiary called Natural Upcycling in Piffard that collects food waste for energy production. "We feed our digester ... about 15,000 tons of food waste per month," he said, adding the unit can generate enough electricity to power roughly 500 homes.
He offered a snapshot of county agriculture: about 612 farms and roughly 196,000 acres of farmland (average farm size ~321 acres), with an estimated 1,000 on‑farm production jobs. "What…
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