Farmers fighting for COVID vaccine
WWNY Farmers fighting for COVID vaccine By Keir Chapman | March 11, 2021 at 3:41 PM EST - Updated March 11 at 8:54 PM
TOWN OF ELLISBURG, N.Y. (WWNY) - New York farmers are making noise after still being left off the stateâs COVID vaccine eligibility list.
Thereâs plenty of work to do on Sheland farms in the town of Ellisburg and plenty of animals too.
âWe milk about 900 cows and we farm about 3,000 acres,â said Devon Shelmidine, Jefferson County Farm Bureau president.
Shelmidine is pushing for agricultural workers to be on the stateâs list to get a COVID-19 vaccine.