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Building Resilience through Farm Employee Training Resources

By Kacey Deamer / May 28, 2020

Sharing training videos, labor resources and standard operating procedures to help your farm business. As we start to gear up for this new season, many of us may face some…

COVID-19 Update on Applying for Financial Assistance through CFAP

By Kacey Deamer / May 26, 2020

Farmers and Ranchers Can Now Apply for Financial Assistance through USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program Agricultural producers can now apply for USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), which provides direct…

COVID-19 Update on Safety Plans Required for All NYS Businesses

By Kacey Deamer / May 20, 2020

COVID-19 Safety Plans Required for All Businesses in “New York Forward” Re-Opening Plan Agricultural workforce specialist Richard Stup prepared the following overview of how all businesses need to have a…

Building Resilience through COVID-19 Health and Safety

By Kacey Deamer / May 14, 2020

Sharing information on how to take care of ourselves, our employees and our customers. As we move toward reopening our businesses and lives, we need to make sure we are…

COVID-19 Update on the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program

By Kacey Deamer / May 13, 2020

Coronavirus Food Assistance Program to Offer Direct Support to Farmers The Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), authorized in the CARES Act, will provide $16 billion in direct support to agricultural producers…

COVID-19 Update on EIDL Program and PPP Funding

By Elizabeth (Liz) Higgins / May 12, 2020

Economic Injury Disaster Loans Application Reopened for Ag Businesses and Updates to Paycheck Protection Loan Program Cornell Cooperative Extension educators have been compiling the latest update on various emergency funding…

Updated Guide Provides Regulatory Information for Marketing for Livestock and Poultry Products

By Anna Birn / May 11, 2020

We are excited to announce that our “Guide to Direct Marketing Livestock and Poultry” has undergone an extensive update. The guide, first published in 2010, provides useful information on how…

Building Resilience for Livestock and Dairy Producers

By Kacey Deamer / May 7, 2020

Offering information on how to navigate market changes due to this pandemic. The most common refrain we are hearing from livestock producers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic is the need…

Reducing Dairy Production Costs Through the Use of Pasture

By Fay Benson / May 6, 2020

The current and future disruption of the dairy industry will require producers to think outside the box and possibly inside the fence. Two dairy enterprises that can benefit the most…

COVID-19 Update on Reopening of Economic Injury Disaster Loans

By Kacey Deamer / May 4, 2020

Economic Injury Disaster Loans Application Reopening for Ag Businesses The recent CARES Act provided additional emergency funding through Small Business Administration (SBA) for businesses who are facing losses due to…

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