Interested in adding some Halloween fun to your farming business? Take a look at Insight Dairy in Little Falls, NY, to get some great ideas for hosting a successful event. Insight Dairy, a 2,300 head dairy and crop farm, has been offering “Trunk or Treat” for six years. Despite some chilly wind and ...

The annual Oneida County Farm Bureau Banquet recently took place at the Franklin Hotel Restaurant in Rome, NY. Those joining many of the county’s farmers included agricultural businesses, several elected officials and representatives from Cornell Cooperative Extension. Peter Ricardo from Central Foo...

How can technology improve agriculture and address the challenges currently facing farmers? Panelists addressed this question at the most recent Coffee, Coaching & Connections event hosted by the New York State Center for Food & Agriculture at the Cornell AgriTech campus. The panelists included Yu J...

CANASTOTA, NY – The bliss of autumn is the delight of watching the leaves in their final dance and enjoying the bucolic scene of grazing cows. It was the backdrop for a “casual” pasture walk at Nathan and Kristine Weaver’s 100% grass-fed organic dairy farm featuring Organic Valley’s veterinarian and...

In honor of National Farmers Day on Oct. 12, Country Folks decided to launch a new way of recognizing some of those who have graced our pages: the inaugural Farmer of the Year Award. We didn’t have to stray far from home to find our first recipient. Located just a mile and a half from the Lee Newspa...

Competing at the state level is much more challenging than county-level shows; however, for the Marshman family representing Marshman Farms in Oxford, NY, this year’s New York State Fair was a good year. Lily Marshman, 15, won first place in her class for her fall heifer calf at the 4-H Show and her...

MUNNSVILLE, NY – One hundred ninety-nine years ago, a dairy farming legacy, borne of Honeoye soils and sacrifice, was started in the hamlet of Stockbridge along the banks of Oneida Creek in Madison County. In describing Lyman Farm’s historic and current journey, resilience and adaptation are key com...