DUANESBURG, N.Y. (News10) -- As the costs of farming increase, one local family is finding unique ways to keep community at the heart of their work. The Field of Screams at Indian House Farm is a haunted family tradition that’s been growing since 2001.

"Farming has gotten much more difficult, much more expensive," said co-owner Paul Hasbrouck.

Hasbrouck has been living at the farm since 1996, after his grandmother passed and transferred it to him. It’s been in the family for six generations, dating back to 1863. It began as a pony farm, then dairy farm, and finally a vegetable farm. He said in his experience in agriculture, costs have been rising rapidly.

"When I first started to grow sweet corn about twenty seven years ago, fertilizer was about seventy five to one hundred dollars a ton

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