Posts by Lindsay Borman

Business Obstacles Successful Farmers Overcome

By Lindsay Borman / July 7, 2017

This article was featured in the Summer 2017 Quarterly. By John Lavelle In my prior three articles, we discussed estate tax implications of large land ownership, business succession issues in farming operations, and the tax benefits of conservation easements.  Now let’s discuss something completely different: the day-to-day issues all business owners must cope with, but that…

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Baskets or Pallets: Vegetable Grading and Packaging

By Lindsay Borman / July 6, 2017

Baskets or Pallets: Vegetable Grading and Packaging Cornell Cooperative Extension will be offering a series of field days to aide in understanding how to determine quality and grade of agricultural products. These sessions are designed to prepare farms in NY, both beginning and experienced, to enter new markets. It will be held at Ernest Girod’s Farm…

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Small Farms Summer Webinar Series Presents: Is Your Farm Business Structured for Success?

By Lindsay Borman / July 5, 2017

The Cornell Small Farms Program Summer Webinar Presents: Is Your Farm Business Structured for Success? on Wed. July 19, from 12-1pm. For decades, farmers have relied on the CSA model and farmers’ markets to retail their produce and finance their farm operations. In recent years, farmers have anecdotally expressed that they are increasingly competing with farms, stores,…

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Baskets or Pallets – Log Grown Mushroom Production, Harvest & Marketing

By Lindsay Borman / July 3, 2017

On Saturday, July 8, 2017, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Cornell Cooperative Extension will be offering a series of field days to aide in understanding how to determine quality and grade of agricultural products. These sessions are designed to prepare farms in NY, both beginning and experienced, to enter new markets. The session will be at Toad Song…

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Everything Old is New Again: Cornell University Researchers Study Industrial Hemp, One of the Earliest Domesticated Plants

By Lindsay Borman / July 3, 2017

In early June, Cornell University researchers established three industrial hemp trials, one in Ithaca on the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and two in Geneva on the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.  There are no industrial hemp varieties developed for New York, so we are testing commercially available varieties from central and eastern Canada…

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Small Farm Product Liability

By Lindsay Borman / July 3, 2017

Small Farm Product Liability: Coverage for Your Farm Products by Reuben Dourte If farming was to be broken down to its most simple definition, one could describe it as the supply side of a complex ‘manufacturing’ assembly line.  Agricultural products raised or produced by farmers find their way into an expansive array of goods.  As with any…

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Parasite Control for Small Ruminant Producers

By Lindsay Borman / July 3, 2017

Small Ruminant Producers: Do you want to improve your parasite control through genetic selection? The USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program is  offering free Fecal Egg Count (FEC) analysis to assist with selective breeding for resistance to gastrointestinal worms. AVAILABLE TO: Ø National Sheep Improvement Program (NSIP) members wanting to generate Estimated Breeding Values…

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Introducing Sustainable Food Production to Buffalo Youth: The Massachusetts Avenue Project

By Lindsay Borman / July 3, 2017

By Claire Collie For over fourteen years, Massachusetts Avenue Project’s (MAP) Growing Green program on Buffalo’s west side has employed young people, teaching them how to grow food and make positive changes in our local food system. The organization began as a single lot community garden, and has grown to an urban farm spanning 13 lots,…

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'Meat and Greet' Fair Brings Farmers to Local Tables

By Lindsay Borman / July 3, 2017

By RJ Anderson When it comes to shopping for meat, more consumers are looking for products raised locally. Many of those consumers, however, have trouble connecting with nearby farms to satisfy their buying preferences. Looking to break down that barrier in upstate New York was the inaugural Meat & Greet Farmer and Chef Fair. Held March…

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Heirloom Tomatoes: For Farmers, A Challenging Love Affair

By Lindsay Borman / July 3, 2017

By Emily Nink and Hugh Joseph Nothing captures summertime in New England like fresh, locally-grown heirloom tomatoes. Heirlooms have captured the imaginations of chefs and the hearts of farmers’ market shoppers, who just can’t seem to get enough of them; they are the poster fruit of the “buy fresh, buy local” movement. Small farmers have responded…

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