It’s almost time for spring planting, and many farmers will be spending extra time in the farm shop before heading out to the fields. Whether shop time means routine maintenance or repairs to major equipment, make sure safety is the priority. It’s easy to rush through a job when the weather is just ...

Terrell Spencer, Poultry Specialist for the National Center for Appropriate Technology, recently shared details of his profitable pastured poultry production. The February webinar provided practical first-hand how-to and economic information on building a successful pastured poultry operation. Spenc...

CANASTOTA, NY — Wendell Berry’s question seems quite relevant in honoring the Carrier Family of ABC-NBR Dairy Farms as Madison County’s newest Conservation Farm of the Year. In answering his own inquiry, Berry quips, there are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. In the quest ...

By STEVEN YACCINO FAIR OAKS, Ind. — Here at one of the largest dairy farms in the country, electricity generated using an endless supply of manure runs the equipment to milk around 30,000 cows three times a day. For years, the farm has used livestock waste to create enough natural gas to power 10 ba...

Oswego County Farm Bureau President, Nancy Weber along with New York State FFA Association President, Amanda Rhodes met recently with the Oswego County Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES). The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the development of an enhanced agricultural education p...

Pollination prices are expected to be trending upward on the East Coast this spring, with perhaps a shortage of hives for rental in some areas. Beekeepers generally agree on the reasons for the rise in prices. First, trucking costs for semi-loads of bees are soaring. One large pollinator said he’s s...

Like many farms in central Pennsylvania, the Glen Cauffman farm is tucked into a quiet valley, surrounded by gently rolling hills that cradle the Susquehanna River in Perry County, Pennsylvania. The farm isn’t unusual in regard to size and topography, but what’s happening there is unique. Cauffman i...

SYRACUSE, NY — At this year’s annual Empire State Producers Expo, experts from Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Department of Environmental Conservation among others, presented many hours of practical advice to fruit, vegetable and flower growers. No significant results from grafting tomatoes i...

Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Pro-Dairy and Central New York Dairy/Field Crops Team recently presented workshops on new technologies and studies aimed at improving dairy resiliency. The topics involving breeding programs and dairy profitability were covered in an article in the March 25 edition of...

LIBERTY, NY – The public is being asked to help keep the doors open full-time at Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Sullivan County following a 20% cut in funding by the Sullivan County Legislature, due to its financial challenges. This request for community support comes after a unanimous vote lat...

More than 100 farmers and others advocating agriculture turned out for this year’s No Farm No Food Rally in Albany on Wednesday, March 13. Sixteen teams met on the third floor terrace of the Legislative Office Building to implore 64 senators and assembly members to seriously consider three prioritie...

Farmers from around New York State attended workshops presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Pro-Dairy and Central NY Dairy/ Field Crops Team to obtain information on new technologies and studies aimed at improving dairy resiliency. Reproduction programs, barn lighting technology, optimizing f...

George Wright of Metcalfe, Ontario, just north of New York State, has developed a unique business plan that allows him to support his family of five with just 44 acr es, cropping about 20 acres a year in organic grains. His secret? Marketing just about all his grain at a very well-attended farmers’ ...

“Marketing is everything from the customer’s point of view,” explained Julie Fox, Ph.D. Program Director of Direct Marketing at Ohio State University South Centers College of Food, Ag. & Environmental Sciences – Extension & OARDC. Businesses must make information across a number of channels to meet ...

In a press release today, the New York Farm Bureau made the following statement on the recently proposed minimum wage increase “New York’s farmers understand the value of hard work for a good day’s pay, but that pay must come from somewhere. Increasing the minimum wage at a time when a farmer is pay...