Year: 2013

Upcoming Workshop: Transitioning to Organic Growing

By arw225@cornell.edu / August 5, 2013
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Learn directly from the certifiers the best ways to newly implement organic practices. Date: August 14, 2013 Time: 4:00pm-7:00pm Location: Old Ridge Farms, 3128 Ridge Rd., Williamson, NY 14589 Join Old Ridge…

Interested in Northeast Agricultural Statistics?

By arw225@cornell.edu / July 30, 2013
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Who Grows What, Where in the Northeast? Explore Northeast Agriculture from a Numbers Perspective! This PDF was put together by USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service, New England Field Office. See how…

What’s New in Ag? Find Out at Empire Farm Days

By arw225@cornell.edu / July 25, 2013
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Empire Farms Days takes place August 6-8 at the Rodman Lott & Son Farms. 2973 State Route 414, Seneca Falls, NY 13148 Tuesday & Wednesday 9 AM – 5 PM…

Celebrate Summer at Cornell University’s 11th Annual Floriculture Day

By arw225@cornell.edu / July 19, 2013
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Join us Tuesday, August 13 2013 on Cornell Campus in Ithaca, NY. In honor of the heat, the theme for this year’s Floriculture Field Day is plants that thrive in…

Avoiding Summer Risks on Pasture

By Violet Stone / July 1, 2013
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Small Dairy Educator Fay Benson and the South Central Dairy Team have scheduled three pasture walks designed to show how New York Farmers are using management practices to to mitigate summer…

Workplace CSA’s – Get Your Veggies While You Work

By Laura McDermott / July 1, 2013
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Pilot Program Increases Farmer’s Business and Employee Wellness. Despite an abundance of farmers’ markets and farm stands, consumers still purchase produce at grocery stores.  Let’s face it – people go…

The Disappearing Hay

By Stuart Cheney / July 1, 2013
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  One year about 1944 or ‘45 it was time to cut the second cutting of hay, more commonly called rowen back then. The farmer who lived across the road…

The Case for Regional Seed

By Petra Page-Mann / July 1, 2013
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There is so much in a seed. Each seed tells the story of its entire life history, millions of years in the making.  A few seeds, in a single generation,…

Cornell Small Farms Program Update

By Violet Stone / July 1, 2013
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Message from the Managing Editor Happy Summer!  Here on the agriculture quad, students have left for summer internships, faculty and technicians are in the fields doing research, and the campus…

Horse Power

By arw225@cornell.edu / July 1, 2013
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Photo by Chandler Briggs Our summer photo feature comes to us all the way from Welcome Table Farm in Walla Walla, Washington. Welcome Table Farm offers a full diet of foods…