Baskets or Pallets – Vegetable Grading and Packaging
Thursday, August 24, 2017, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County is offering a hands-on, on-farm experience to aide in understanding how to determine quality and grade of agricultural products. This session is designed to prepare farms in NY, both beginning and experienced, to enter new markets. Learn how to grade … Read More
Introducing Sustainable Food Production to Buffalo Youth: The MAssachusetts Avenue Project
This article was featured in the Summer 2017 Quarterly. 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 … Read More
Agriculture Career Day Exposes Teens to Diverse Fields
This article was featured in the Summer 2017 Quarterly. Finger Lakes Workforce Investment Board, Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Cornell Cooperative Extension team up to host 2017 Building the Agricultural Intellect of the Finger Lakes Youth Career Day. By RJ Anderson From dairy robotics and precision farming technology to the chemistry of wine making … Read More
Organic farmers and researchers utilize cover crops to reduce the labor and expense of organic mulches.
This article was featured in the Summer 2017 Quarterly. by Brian Caldwell and Ryan Maher Organic mulches like hay or straw can suppress weeds and improve soil. They are used by many small scale vegetable farmers, but the cost of the material and application may be prohibitive for larger operations. However, there may be ways around this obstacle. … Read More
The Green Lie of Hay and Grazing Lands: Deceivingly Green Pastures Performing at a Fraction of Their Potential
This article was featured in the Summer 2017 Quarterly. by Rich Taber At the time of this writing in early May, I look out the window onto a green, awakening landscape, with the sun trying to deliver its warm rays to kick start the green up process via photosynthesis. I think of those approaching warmer sunny summer days, … Read More
Small Ruminant Producers: Do you want to improve your parasite control through genetic selection
This article was featured in the Summer 2017 Quarterly. 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 (EBV) for parasite resistance. Free for new … Read More
Reduced Tillage Field Day – Summer 2017
Tools and Tactics for Organic Vegetables at Any Scale August 14th, 2017, 4:00-7:00 pm Location: Freeville Organic Research Farm at the Cornell HC Thompson Vegetable Research Farm, 133 Fall Creek Road, Freeville NY REGISTER NOW! Join the Cornell Reduced Tillage Team for a field tour and discussion of practices to build soils and manage weeds … Read More
New York farms can cut energy use and energy costs with the Agriculture Energy Audit Program
This article was featured in the Summer 2017 Quarterly. By Lisa Coven Last spring, NYSERDA launched the Agriculture Energy Audit Program. The Program offers farms and on-farm producers no-cost energy audits. No up-front costs are required form the farmer as NYSERDA pays the consultant directly. Three levels of audits are offered. The level II audit adheres to ANSI/ASABE … Read More
List of Items for a Beginning Sheep Farmer, Part One: Tips and Resources for Beginning Sheep Farmers
This article was featured in the Summer 2017 Quarterly. by Ulf Kintzel “What do I need when I start?” It is a question that is posed to me often. The almost inevitable follow-up question almost always is “Where do I get it”? I figured I should compile a list of items that one needs and while I am … Read More
Have you checked out the new USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service resources?
If you are taking some time to get out of the heat this summer, go online and check out USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service’s improved online census questionnaire demonstration site. “Responding to the census will be easier than ever before in December. It is our hope that producers will become familiar with the online census … Read More