“Onboarding is much like other tasks. If no one is specifically assigned to help onboard and take control of it, no one is going to know who’s responsible, and it’s going to be passed around,” said Richard Stup. Stup is an ag workforce specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension and the facilitato...

Dr. Tara Felix, beef Extension specialist, Penn State, addressed a group of cattle feeders on the topic of feeding dairy cross animals. She started the discussion with background on why U.S. dairy farmers have been breeding dairy cows with beef semen. “We are unique in the U.S. in that we have a sep...

Managing no-till systems with cover crops to lower herbicide use With the price of glyphosate and other herbicides so much higher than in recent years – and in more limited supply – finding ways to reduce herbicide inputs in no-till systems is on the minds of many in the ag industry. Recently, NRCS ...

Cory Bratland, chief grain strategist with Kluis Commodity Advisors, said he’s often been asked how he sleeps at night with the current grain markets. “My answer is ‘Like a baby – I wake up screaming and crying every two hours,’” he joked. Bratland presented “Successful Farming Talk: Marketing Strat...

Three brothers went into a manure pit to repair a pipe last summer and none of them made it out alive. Many farmers learned of that story and vowed it would never happen on their farm, but despite understanding the hazards of manure gases in a confined space, there’s a good chance someone else will ...

Spring is finally here. Along with the prospect of warmer sunny days, the greening of the grass and the first flower blooms comes the necessity for extra diligence in the care of horses’ feet. There are a couple of conditions that commonly occur this time of year that can cause severe and long-lasti...

Creating silvopasture is not a matter of fencing in the woods and letting the animals forage. Farmers must plan to create a successful silvopasture as indicated by “Converting Woodland to Silvopasture,” a recent webinar hosted by Food Animal Concerns Trust and presented by Steve Gabriel, owner of We...

As much as any other bone in the horse’sstructure,the coffin bone plays an important role in the soundness and longevity of the horse. The size and the shape varies from breed to breed, horse to horse, and the coffin bone is as inheritable as the rest of the structure. We cannot visually see it, but...

Timothy Terry, farm strategic planning specialist with Cornell Pro-Dairy, is accustomed to helping farmers identify the often-overlooked details that a retrofit of an old barn or other farm building requires. Terry spoke at the 2022 Catskills Regional Agriculture Conference, sharing his knowledge to...