Posts by Kara Lynn Dunn
If you’re thinking about starting a farm enterprise focused on growing berries, Elaine and Karl Guppy will tell you to go to back to school at Cornell University first. “We have taken almost every production and business management workshop offered by the Cornell University New York Berry Project,” Elaine says. “The learning opportunities are packed…
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Grape growers are using a new action-planning tool – the New York Guide to Sustainable Viticulture Practices Grower Self-Assessment Workbook – to enhance economically-sound production with minimal environmental impacts. The eight-section, 134-question workbook facilitates evaluation of soil and nutrient management; weed, disease, and insect control; and the vineyard business’s economic needs. Getting the workbook into…
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The Northeast Livestock Processing Service Company (NELPSC) connects producers and processors for made-to-order meat products — and increased sales for both. Livestock farmers formed NELPSC in 2006 to address the challenge of obtaining quality processing for livestock and poultry. Today, the farmer-owned company works with 95 livestock farmers and 8 processors and those numbers are…
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