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Program Updates
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Enroll Now for Small Farms Online Course Season This Winter Are you interested in improving your technical or business skills to benefit your farm dreams? Consider joining one of our online courses during live instruction this online course season. Our growing team of online course instructors includes experienced farmers, extension educators, and agriculture service providers. Courses are offered…
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Editor’s Letter Winter 2025
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Dear farmers and friends, While our jobs as farmers never end, this time of year invites a pause for reflection and gratitude for all we have and hope to grow in our work. Every tradition and religion from around the world has a giving thanks ritual or holiday. At the center of these rituals are…
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Cornell Helps NYS Growers Hone the Art and Science of Poinsettias
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Specialists at Cornell support growers in diagnosing problems – with poinsettias or any other crop – and finding solutions informed by research. Last summer, Mark Van Bourgondien, co-owner of CJ Van Bourgondien Wholesale Greenhouses in Peconic, on Long Island, noticed white flecks and slight discoloration on a few of his young poinsettias. He quickly found…
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Why I Love Grazing
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In the first installment of our new series, Where’s the Grass?, we share why grazing is good for you, your checkbook, your farm, your animals, and the world! For the past several years, I have authored the “What’s Your Beef” column and will now only occasionally write an installment on that topic. Pasture and grazing…
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Challenges and Progress in Water Quality
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An uneasy but important coexistence for agriculture in our watersheds. Working on water quality issues and solutions in the Finger Lakes region has been a bit stressful lately. Disagreements surrounding proposed watershed rules and regulations in Owasco Lake, a newly released Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for Cayuga Lake, a surge in late summer and…
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As U.S. Craft Beer Industry Goes Flat, NYS Bubbles with Optimism
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With 539 craft breweries and counting, New York is ranked second in the nation for craft beer. After decades of growth, craft beer nationwide is in its worst-ever slump, with negative production for the second straight year and more craft brewery closures in 2023 than ever before. But the graph for New York state hasn’t…
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Días de Campo Unen la Comunidad Agrícola Latina
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El proyecto de Futuro en Ag del Cornell Small Farms Program fue anfitrión de una serie de días de campo para productores latinos. Día de campo pone de relieve aprendizaje sobre liderazgo, producción de manzanas Los propietarios Sergio Rosario y Silvia Ríos de Rosario Brothers LLC les dieron la bienvenida a casi 30 participantes en…
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NYCAMH Offers Support for Farmers Facing Physical and Safety Challenges
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With more than 100 agricultural workers injured every day and seven out of ten farms shuttered within five years of a serious accident, the risks are clear — but so is the help. Farming remains one of the most dangerous occupations in the U.S., and unlike many industries, farms present a unique risk to family…
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Destructive Weed, Found in NYS, Resists Common Herbicides
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New research on the invasive pigweed Palmer amaranth shows which herbicides are effective in farmers’ fight against the “spotted lanternfly of weeds.” The invasive pigweed Palmer amaranth, first found in New York soybean fields in 2019, has been dubbed the “spotted lanternfly of weeds” for its ability to spread quickly and wreak havoc on crops.…
Winter 2025
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