“Ice cream brings people together,” said businessman and Arizona Governor, Doug Ducey. When you’re showcasing agriculture in Tioga County, New York what better way to celebrate and teach residents than over this delectable, frosty dairy treat. For the last 11 years, The Tioga County Agriculture Reso...

“The dairy industry has been in trouble for many years and few outside of the industry and rural America know it,” acknowledged Robert Haefner. Haefner, who formerly held a seat on the New Hampshire House of Representatives, works with the Eastern Region of Council of State Government’s Agriculture ...

SENECA FALLS, NY — Labor represents one of the largest parts of overhead at any dairy operation. Keeping labor costs under control can help farms increase profits. Ashley Howlett of Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY Farm Business Management spoke on the topic earlier in the month at one of the free Dairy Profi...

by RD Vincent, author of the Donbridge Series Walking along the country roads of my parents’ farm, I decided to stop off at my grandmother’s house. I could see her pruning her peony bushes in the late summer sun. As I walked up to her yard, the house phone rang loudly, and she quickly dropped her sh...

Dairy cattle don’t have a reputation as being dangerous farm animals because they’re handled frequently and are usually placid. Despite their easy-going nature, dairy animals have the potential to seriously hurt or kill humans, so it’s important to understand how they perceive their surroundings and...

SENECA FALLS, NY — What you feed your dairy herd directly affects cash flow, according to Tom R. Overton, Ph.D, professor of Dairy Management in the Department of animal Science at Cornell University. Overton, who directs the Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY, presented “Feeding Strategies During Challenging T...

Sultry weather did not deter a large turnout for the 2018 New York Corn and Soybean Growers Association (NYCSGA) Ready, Set, Grow! Summer Crop Tour hosted by Merrimac Farms, Inc, Mt. Morris, NY. “We were very pleased with the 2018 Summer Crop Tour this year,” commented Colleen Klein, Executive Direc...

“We’re kind of like summer camp,” explained Winnie Nelson of Nelson Family Farm in Schoharie, NY, at a recent tour and pasture walk on their farm. Winnie and her husband Paul are raising a herd of young, mostly Black Angus stocker steers that they purchased out of Winchester, VA. They started this v...

SENECA FALLS, NY — Want to get top dollar for your beef calves? Try pre-conditioning. Dave Wilson, a retired large animal veterinarian presented “Putting Profit in Your Pocket with Pre-Conditioning Practices” at the recent Empire Farm Days. Wilson contends that although it’s hard to measure down to ...

A group of New York potato farmers began meeting annually in central New York in the 1930s. Their group, the Empire State Potato Growers, continued to expand the event that eventually became Empire Farm Days, which today spans 300 acres at the Rodman Lott & Sons Farm in Seneca Falls, NY. One of the ...

Just got off the phone with Marie, a seed dealer and DEC-certified pesticide applicator. I asked her if she, or any of her customers, had encountered any fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) damage in their crops. She said in early July two farmers had reported such damage in their field corn and s...

New York State’s 2018 Maple Tour, hosted by the Upper Hudson Area Maple Producers Association, took place July 15-17, featuring tours of eight maple operations from the northeastern part of the state. Farms included small maple production operations to large, with some using new reverse osmosis syst...

When Shannon Stanton-Helms of Water Wheel Farm was involved in an ATV accident, leaving her with a fractured neck, it not only left her strapped physically, it left her and her family strapped financially. The Trout Creek, Delaware County teacher and early intervention provider and her contractor hu...

So you’re a farmer and you’ve got this pile of brush you made out of tenacious, multi-flora rose bushes, overgrown honeysuckle, wily spiked hawthorn trees and dead limb wood. Before you touch a match to this hedgerow fuel and burn up your nemesis, might you consider this action functional as well as...

“Let’s see a show of hands! Who among you was doing work before 1995?” asked Eric Rosenbaum, executive director of the Pennsylvania Corn Growers Association. He is also executive director of the Pennsylvania 4-R Nutrient Stewardship Alliance. “Okay, then you can help me out when it comes to talking ...