News and Updates

SUNY Cobleskill and Harvest New York invite beef producers to hone their skills in a one-day Beef Cutting Seminar on May 25, the first in a new series of meat production classes to be offered throughout the year. The course will be taught by SUNY Cobleskill faculty, and specialists from the Harvest New York program…

Cornell Small Farms Program and the Northeast Beginning Farmers Project got a shoutout in Kieth Tidball’s April 22, 2016 edition of his Friday Field Notes blog. Check it out: In our second Friday Field Notes blog post we are highlighting how cooperative extension educators in New York worked with personnel from Fort Drum  and with the New York State Division of…

Published on April 22, 2016 by Michael James Baker Stocker Cattle Initiative to beef up Southern Tier agriculture Recently awarded a $627,000 programming and research grant from Governor Andrew Cuomo as part of the $5 million Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement program, Cornell University is looking to bring an emerging livestock market, known as “stocker” beef…

We are seeking articles and cover photography for our print publication, the Small Farm Quarterly, which is offered four times a year and reaches over 31,000 readers in New York and the Northeast US. The quarterly is offered as a supplement to Country Folks and is produced by Lee Publications. Farmers, extension educators, and service providers…

Join CCOF and the Farmer Veteran Coalition (FVC) on June 2 for a webinar on recordkeeping for organic growers. Learn processes to make on-farm organic recordkeeping easier, as well as a framework to assist you in developing a recordkeeping system for your operation that maintains the records needed for organic certification. This webinar is ideal…

from Rachel Armstrong, Executive Director and Attorney, Farm Commons We want to add value your work educating sustainable farmers by helping you add legal education to your offerings. Farm Commons can help you empower your community through Sustainable Farm Law 101, our custom-created set of workshops that give sustainable farmers the resources to address the basics of land…

Vets Growing Berries Saturday, April 23rd, 9am-2pm Apple Hills, 131 Brooks Rd, Binghamton, NY Calling All Veterans:  Do you have an interest in growing strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or other small fruits? Maybe you’d like to start a U-pick, or sell at your local Farmers Market? Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County (Binghamton, NY) will be…

From https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2016/Q1/online-budgeting-tools-available-for-small-scale-livestock-producers.html: Purdue Extension has developed a pair of Web-based, interactive resources to help new producers and anyone thinking about starting a small-scale livestock operation to make critical budgeting decisions. The Purdue Comparative Decision Support matrix, known as PCDS, includes a spreadsheet tool that allows users to create an operating budget based on their own fixed…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is requesting scientific data, information, and comments that would assist the Agency in its plan to develop a risk assessment for produce grown in fields or other growing areas amended with untreated biological soil amendments of animal origin (including raw manure). The risk assessment will evaluate and,…

Please join NOFA-NY for a brainstorming session to create a New York Organic Action Plan! Let’s stop reacting and work for the future we want! We will hold to gatherings, back-to-back, April 7, 2016, 3 pm to 6 pm, then a light dinner, and 6:30 pm – 9 pm in the Community Space, Green Star, Ithaca. Free…