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Message from the Managing Editor Happy Spring! May this issue find you enjoying a warmer sun and the greening of the land. Spring is a time of congregation and re-acquaintance with each other, and as I was editing the articles featured in this Spring 2011 issue, I was struck by how many focus on farming…
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A New Trend in Dairying More and more dairy farmers are raising heifers on cows for a variety of reasons—a trend we at Dharma Lea Farm are glad to see. As an effective method of improving shipped milk quality, many farmers use cows with high somatic cell counts (SCC) as nurse cows. The recent quota…
Read MoreSeveral years ago I had the very good fortune of being a grazing mentor for the Regional Farm and Food Project. In that capacity, I worked with an incredibly passionate grass farmer from East Meredith, N.Y. named Catharina Kessler. This descendant of Swedish royalty carefully nurtured her Black Angus cattle, multi-colored sheep and pastured poultry…
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The youth pages are written by and for young people. Many thanks to the 4-H’ers from Yates County who contributed to this issue. We believe there’s a bright future for young farmers in the Northeast. Whether you live on a farm or only wish you did, we’d love to hear from you. More information about…
Read MoreThe outlook for widespread natural gas development in New York is still unclear as policy makers and other stakeholders continue to debate the risks and benefits. But what is certain is that much of upstate New York contains rich natural gas reserves beneath the ground that could be developed someday. Therefore, it is likely that…
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Welcome to the Northeast SARE Spotlight! SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) offers grants to farmers, educators, universities and communities that are working to make agriculture more sustainable – economically, environmentally, and socially. Learn about whether a SARE grant would be a good fit for you. Since the bout of food safety scandals over the…
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It’s 10am on a Friday morning and I am surrounded by the smell of raw fish, smoked bacon, roasted almonds, fresh-picked tulips, the River Thames and wet pavement. This is the lively feast for the senses that is London’s Borough Market, a popular weekend farmer’s market located in central London. I visited this famed bazaar…
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After being in the business of raising wool sheep of various kinds for two decades, I decided in 2005 to start with hair sheep. It was a fairly bold move at the time since it meant giving up on the customers who bought breeding stock from me, and since I also didn’t know how well…
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For the small farmer, one of the most basic tenets of our mission – to grow food for ourselves and our community – is becoming increasingly difficult due to one simple issue, the acquiring and maintaining of land. As property taxes have increased, shipping costs and gas have increased and unfortunately income derived from growing…
Read MoreMessage from the Managing Editor Happy New Year! As I sit in my toasty office organizing content for this first issue of 2011, snow is softly falling outside the window. We have some new and exciting columns to introduce that will appear regularly throughout 2011. The first, ‘Technology on the Farm”, will focus on the…
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