Pig Production Grows Quickly
by Jo E. Prout Pig production runs the gamut Greene County farmer Bitta Albright is entering her fourth season in pig production, after starting with only two to raise for herself. “They’re very addictive. You can’t just have one pig,” she said. “We enjoy it. Oh, my gosh! I started with two for meat for…
Read MoreOld Order Farmer has Ivy League Role
by R.J. Anderson In Penn Yan, NY, commercial vegetable grower Nelson Hoover does not own a car, a computer or a PhD. In fact, as a member of the Groffdale Conference Mennonites, Hoover’s formal schooling ended after eighth grade. But, for over a decade, the 28-year-old has been at the forefront of vegetable growing innovation…
Read MoreMaking Connections through Soil Health
Local Farmers in Western New York are working together to create a network of local soil conservation knowledge through the newly formed WNY Soil Health Alliance. by Jena Buckwell Modern agricultural pollution is a widespread crisis throughout the United Sates that alters both the health of our natural landscape and our communities. Agricultural runoff of…
Read MoreNortheast Ag Safety & Health Coalition Meets for their Second Annual Meeting
by James Carrabba On May 3-4, 2016, the Northeast Agricultural Safety and Health Coalition held their second annual meeting at the NYCAMH office in Cooperstown, NY. The very first meeting of the Coalition was held here at NYCAMH in May 2015. At this year’s meeting there were eighteen individuals from six different Northeast states present, which…
Read MoreIncorporating Forage Brassicas into a Grazing System
Planting brassicas in your pasture provides more than just high quality forage. Dr. Leanne Dillard Forage brassicas are annuals that can be utilized as pasture during the spring, summer,and fall grazing seasons. Forage brassicas include varieties of rapeseed (rape), radish, turnip,swede, kale, and hybrids. They are quick maturing and can be grazed 60 to 120 days…
Read MoreCornell Small Farms Update 2016
Message from the Editor Summer is upon the farm and this always means sweaty long days where we often push our bodies and minds to their limit; sometimes not leaving the field until the sun has slipped down over the horizon. We are busy as farmers, and there never seems to be enough time in the day. I’ve…
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