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Posted on August 27, 2025
The Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance recently celebrated its 25th anniversary at the Jim Hershey farm in Elizabethtown, PA. One of the featured demonstrations was a soil pit, which was dug directly under recently planted sorghum-sudangrass. Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator, Stroud Water Research C...
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Enrico Villamaino 
Posted on August 27, 2025
Once hailed as a green guardian of soil health, annual ryegrass has now gone rogue in New York State. A cover crop champion turned chemical-defying challenger, this fast-growing plant has morphed into a resistant renegade, surviving glyphosate sprays and turning heads in the worst way. Research titl...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on August 27, 2025
When Melissa Cantor was raising calves at the University of Kentucky as an undergrad, she realized there was a need to identify animals that were getting sick. Cantor also speculated that machine learning might be a tool to help detect illness prior to animals showing clinical signs. Today, Cantor i...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on August 27, 2025
So, what’s the difference between the United Soybean Board (USB) and the American Soybean Association (ASA)? Tracy Snider, senior manager of state relations with the ASA, explained how the organizations differ at the recent 2025 New York Corn & Soybean Summer Crop Tour hosted by Rodman Lott & Son Fa...
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Andy Haman 
Posted on August 24, 2025
New York State’s Woodmen’s Field Days, held annually at the Boonville-Oneida County Fairgrounds, is a crown jewel of the Northeast’s logging industry and a fan-favorite of anyone who works in proximity to forestry and logging, farming or just enjoys the “buzz” of everything from the latest hand tool...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on August 20, 2025
Beyond cow comfort, it’s important to reduce the effects of heat stress in a dairy herd. Heat stress causes direct financial losses – and not just from reduced milk production. “It affects reproduction substantially,” said Jon Mills, herd manager at Morrisville State College Dairy Complex. “Their in...
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Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
Posted on August 20, 2025
“My dream is to have a cell phone-based device that I can take to the farm and tell you exactly which bacteria are making your animal sick, and exactly which antibiotic at which dose is going to make it get healthy fast. But we’re a long way away,” Erika Ganda said during a recent interview on the “...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on August 20, 2025
The official hurricane season for the Mid-Atlantic runs June 1 through the end of November. Some predictions say this tropical storm season might be bad, so there’s plenty of monitoring going on. The potential for dangerous flooding may increase if heavy rain falls on already soaked ground. Thankful...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on August 19, 2025
American Dairy Association North East dropped the curtain on the 57th annual butter sculpture at the Great New York State Fair on Aug. 19, sponsored by Wegmans. Titled “Dairy for Good: Nourish. Grow. Thrive,” it celebrates the joy and nourishment dairy provides at every stage of life – and is inspir...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on August 13, 2025
If routine corn field scouting results in the discovery of leaves with multiple black, unevenly shaped spots, it might be corn tar spot. In a recent presentation, Andrew Kness, University of Maryland Extension, discussed this relatively new corn disease. “Tar spot of corn is a disease caused by the ...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on August 13, 2025
“Manure management is becoming more of a challenge,” said Peter Wright. “The issues of sustainability are becoming more real. The societal impacts of manure constrain some farms, and there is an economic component.” An ag engineer at Cornell University, Wright said the big picture for manure storage...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on August 13, 2025
As the last of the harvest comes in and the fields begin to rest for winter, the energy shifts. The air feels heavier, the nights stretch longer. You can feel it – the turning of the year! Samhain (pronounced sOW-in) marks the end of the harvest season and the start of the darker half of the year. I...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on August 6, 2025
Dr. Troy Rowan, assistant professor, beef cattle genomics, University of Tennessee, realizes cattlemen may not see the value of genomic testing for commercial heifers, but he offers solid information on why it’s worthwhile. “Traditional heifer selection strategy has been to buy good bulls, use commo...
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Andy Haman 
Posted on August 6, 2025
WALTON, NY – The drive up Fletcher Road is beautiful; the houses and barns of Bear Farm are nestled in the blue-green brilliance of Delaware County’s bucolic scenery. Visitors will pass the farm’s eponymous sign as they make the sharp turn onto the country road: “Bear Farm – All-Natural Beef for Sal...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on July 30, 2025
Summer and autumn bring livestock shows and fairs, a higher risk of disease transmission and more need for solid biosecurity. “Biosecurity is the set of steps to take to prevent or reduce the spread of disease,” said Abby Schuft, Ph.D., poultry Extension educator, University of Minnesota. “With fair...
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Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
September 24, 2025
According to Tim Terry, farm strategic planning specialist with Cornell University’s PRO-DAIRY , the calf hutch is still the gold standard for raising...
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Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
September 24, 2025
The Asian longhorn tick (ALHT), native to eastern Asia, was first found in the U.S. in 2017. In less than a decade, ALHT populations are thriving. Est...
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jkarkwren 
September 24, 2025
On the evening of March 15, 2025, a fairly serious electric storm hit central New York and much of the Northeast. The flash-to-bang time for the first...
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Karl H. Kazaks 
October 1, 2025
LOWESVILLE, VA – Deer Creek Farm is a registered Simmental and SimAngus operation owned by Mark and Dana Campbell. Located in western Nelson County wi...
