“The numbers are really strong this year!” commented New York Holstein Association Executive Manager Kelly Reynolds. New York Holstein Association sponsors the annual, highly regarded, dairy show, where seven major dairy breeds, including black and white Holstein, red and white Holstein, Jersey, Mil...

February’s bipartisan budget deal resulted in some changes to the Margin Protection Program for dairy, or MPP Dairy. The voluntary risk management program was created in the 2014 Farm Bill and has not been used beyond the minimum coverage in recent years. Dr. Andy Novakovic, professor of ag economic...

CHITTENANGO, NY — The dust bowl era in the Midwest displaced many families, including farmers. Edson and Harriet Durfee were one of them. Luckily for New York and Madison County, they and their three children moved back east from Nebraska, and settled their dairy farm on 120 acres of river bottom so...

Quality and safety of raw milk and groundbreaking analysis technology for detecting illness in dairy cows before physical evidence appears were topics focused on at CNY’s 2018 Dairy Day. Speakers included CNY CCE Regional Dairy Specialist David Balbian; Dr. Heather Dann, Research Scientist at Miner ...

Farming presents a host of potential hazards, but with safety at the forefront and agencies like Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), the New York Farm Bureau (NYFB) and the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health (NYCAMH), much of what could go wrong is avoided. “Although it might seem...

Ovaltop Holsteins, Richfield Springs, NY, hosted an open barn/open house for the Otsego-Herkimer-Montgomery (O-H-M) Holstein Club of Central New York on Saturday, March 24. This is an annual event for the club, with one member hosting the ‘open barn’ each spring. This was the 2nd time the event has ...

ONEIDA, NY — Rock-star Astrophysicist and gifted science communicator, Neil deGrasse Tyson, lends his credentials to a thought-provoking, documentary film called Food Evolution that confronts the “brutally polarizing debate” surrounding GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and food. “The documentar...

How well are you managing your dairy? In 2-day sessions, updated, best dairy management practices were discussed by ProDairy teams across New York State, with additional on-farm tours giving attendees an opportunity to learn first-hand how other dairies are implementing these practices to be success...

There is no denying that milk quality premiums have been evaporating no matter what region you are located in. Bulk tank somatic cell count used to allow a producer a significant opportunity to gain valuable dollars or cents onto the mailbox price. There still may be the opportunity to increase your...

Madison Co., a recent member of the Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Central NY Dairy and Field Crops group, hosted a Crop Congress featuring CNY CCE Field Crop Specialist Kevin Ganoe and CCE North Country Regional Ag Team Field Crops Specialist, Mike Hunter. Hunter spoke to the group of producers as...

extension agricultural engineer Pressure to reduce input costs for farm products has led to an active market of quality used machinery. It is relatively simple to determine the condition of many types of field implements, but tractor and combine evaluation can present more difficulties. Much of the ...

Central NY beef producers and buyers met at the new, state-of-the-art, Farm Credit East near Cooperstown, NY, to discuss on-going progress and future plans during a meeting led by CNY CCE Educator Bill Gibson and Cornell Beef Cattle Specialist Dr. Mike Baker. Featured at this meeting was a live, web...

SYRACUSE, NY — Rachel Carson used to say; “Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.” For local NYS conservation districts and their employees; helping farmers, landowners and communities do this important “on the ground” work has been a pa...

MORRISVILLE, NY — “We are so engaged with getting ‘likes’ that we are losing our real connections in life,” said the passionate teacher, author and small farmer, Anne Phinney of Moose River Farm in Old Forge, NY. Her poignant message headlined the 2nd Annual 2018 Small Farm and Homestead Fair at Mor...

PA Avian Influenza update “This year so far we have had only four incidents that we’ve had to investigate,” said Dr. Nan Hanshaw, DVM, Pennsylvania Agriculture Department. “Last year we had mostly an H2/N2 [strain] we found with a lot of ducks in a lot of live bird markets.” H2/N2, she said, seems t...