Agriculture has fed humanity throughout recorded history, but it must continue to evolve alongside technological advances if it is to meet current worldwide food needs. That was the overarching theme of “Utilizing Ground Based Rover Technology Across Fields to Aid in its Management,” a discussion pa...

How do you predict markets? When do you sell your grains? A few years ago, it was a more straightforward process. Now… “We’ve been trying to apply a rational thought process to an irrational series of events,” said Ed Usset. Usset is the grain marketing specialist in the Center for Farm Financial Ma...

Cereal rye has been increasing in popularity as a cover crop; however, it provides other benefits and a few issues, as discussed in “Growing Cereal Rye in the Northeast,” a talk presented at the NOFA-NY winter conference recently by Todd Hardie, owner of Thornhill Farm in Greensboro, VT, and Sandy S...

Cereal grains such as barley are often viewed as somewhat average and uninteresting, but Karl Kunze is changing that. Kunze is a Ph.D. candidate in the small grains breeding program in Dr. Mark Sorrell’s Cornell University lab. Kunze’s current work on organic naked barley is part of a USDA-NIFA-OREI...

“What can we do to get employees safe, productive and engaged from day one? That’s the bottom line. That’s what we really want,” said Richard Stup, an agriculture workforce specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension and the facilitator of a webinar series focused on the employee onboarding proces...

There are some significant differences in the ways dairy and beef animals are handled; one is how they’re handled for the first few months of their lives. Depending on the time of year, beef calves are born on pasture or in a dedicated calving area. Other than receiving an ear tag and a brief health...

For any dairy farmer, genetics are always a consideration when trying to improve herd health, productivity and longevity. In an organic dairy herd, genetics become an even larger priority when taking into account the rules of organic farming. Dr. Glenda Periera, University of Maine professor of food...

If you have ruminant livestock, you’re going to need hay. How much hay your animals will consume and how you go about procuring that hay differs from farm to farm. Vermont farmers Ben Nottermann of Snug Valley Farm and Bruce Hennessey of Maple Wind Farm presented at the 2022 Vermont Grazing and Live...

RAPHINE, VA – Pinkeye is one of the most common cattle diseases in Virginia. It’s also difficult to control, being a multifactorial disease. Recently, the Rockbridge Cattlemen’s Association invited Virginia Tech’s Dr. John Currin to discuss pinkeye and how to manage it. The event, which took place a...