It wasn’t long ago in this column — in early September in fact – that I asked the question, “Will Governor Hochul turn her back on farmers?” I asked it after a New York State Wage Board, established under a 2019 law known as the “Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act,” finalized its recommendation to lower the mandatory overtime pay threshold for farm workers from the current 60 hours to 40 hours. Following the Wage Board’s action, Governor Hochul was given 45 days to send down the final word.