Empire Farm Days will be celebrating another wonderful year from Aug. 2 – 4, again at Palladino Farms in Pompey, NY. The annual celebration recognizes and honors all this agricultural in New York State, and this year, a new attraction will be sure to bring out both the bravado and the brawn in some ...

Nowadays many farmers are rolling down growing cover crops and plowing under sod as green manures for a corn crop. The traditional rotation practice adds nutrients and organic matter benefits to the next crop. It wouldn’t be a stretch to figure mowing or trampling down a pasture crop could help fert...

Women are important players in agriculture, and often perform tasks that require personal protective equipment (PPE). However, most PPE is sized for men, which means women are often forced to wear bulky, oversized clothing. Charlotte Halverson, RN, clinical director, AgriSafe Network, said eliminati...

Cover crops are crucial, and can be well worth the cost to a farmer concerned with conservation. As featured speaker in the Illinois Sustainable Ag Partnership’s (ISAP) risk management webinar “Myth – Cover Crops Are Just Another Input: Agronomic Benefits of a Soil Health System,” Dr. Jerry Hatfield...

If you keep a couple of sows and sell meat from your farm or at a farmers market, does the health status of pigs in the Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti matter? Veterinarian Dr. Jack Shere said anyone who has pigs should be concerned about pig health in other countries, especially those close to U....

Country Folks Grower and Lee Trade Shows have been the trade show partner for the Empire State Producers Expo for over 15 years. We have enjoyed our tenure with the many exhibitors and seeing the show grow in size and variety. Unfortunately, at this time we are no longer working for the trades show ...

In a recent eOrganic webinar, Utah State graduate student Michael Greenland presented research which was designed to explore how dairy breed might interact with forage type. Previous studies at the university had shown that Jersey heifers have increased dry matter intake (DMI) when grazing pastures ...

Chrissy Wozniak, host of the North American Ag Spotlight (NAAS) podcast, recently sat down with Damian Mason to discuss how the current state of the economy is likely to affect agricultural professionals moving forward. An author, podcaster, consultant and “agconomist,” Mason laid out his prediction...

Heat has negative implications for dairy cow comfort and productivity, but there’s also clear evidence that heifer calves born of heat-stressed dams have lower productivity. Dr. Jimena Laporta, assistant professor in lactation physiology, University Wisconsin-Madison, addressed the issue of in utero...