Empire Farm Days planning continues

As announced in January, Lee Newspapers Inc., publishers of Country Folks, Country Folks Grower and Country Editor, is now responsible for hosting Empire Farm Days (EFD). The show is still scheduled to take place at Rodman Lott & Son Farms in Seneca Falls, NY, July 29 - 31. Ken Maring, trade show manager, said, “Response to

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by Sally Colby

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If every farmer took time to think through their actions prior to carrying out a task, Ed Aukamp might be out of a job. Aukamp is an EMT, paramedic an...

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Measured, matched & monitored minerals

by Enrico Villamaino

November 4, 2026

Mineral programs can be easy to start and surprisingly hard to get right. Most beef herds have a mineral feeder somewhere in the pasture, but having a...

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Farmers First: Leave me alone, I’m just tired

tecnavia

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It’s that time of year, farm family – the time when moving to an abandoned shack in the middle of nowhere starts sounding awfully attractive. There ar...

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Crop Comments: Fall fertilizer update

Crop Comments A8

November 4, 2026

Just when the global fertilizer scene hints at calming down, one of the normally tamer (and lesser) components has begun misbehaving: elemental sulfur...