News and Updates

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…

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’…

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…

Check out the latest round of articles featured in our Quarterly here.

What are the keys to being successful in this business? Here are four common traits of established industry leaders. Amanda Radke | Mar 14, 2017 As a writer who focuses…

The Farmers Market Federation of NY and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County are preparing a project looking to address the decline of customers at farmers markets as a whole…

Small Ruminant Producers: Do you want to improve your parasite control through genetic selection? Gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) parasites, such as the barber pole worm (Haemonchus contortus), are a serious problem…

Are you transitioning to organic? The USDA Organic Certification Cost Share Programs (OCCSP) provides organic producers and handlers with financial assistance to reduce the cost of organic certification. The programs…

What wild bees need A new national assessment estimates that wild bees declined in 23 percent of the contiguous United States between 2008 and 2013. The team of Project ICPresearchers,…

June 23-25th, 2017 at 10:00am to 4:00pm at Wellspring Forest Farm & School, 6164 Deer Run Ln, Trumansburg, NY 14886 Discover the possibilities of growing a range of food and medicine in marginal…