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Posted on April 2, 2025
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major concerns in human and veterinary medicine today. A variety of agricultural activities may contribute to this issue, especially when wastewater is used for agricultural irrigation. Dr. Daniel Ashworth, research soil scientist with USDA-ARS, has been resear...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on April 2, 2025
One week into Daylight Savings Time, as the sun was starting to set, the sky in our part of Central New York got dark. That darkness soon framed lightning bolts which hit every few minutes for about an hour. The first flash-to-bang time was seven or eight seconds. With speed of sound at approximatel...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on April 1, 2025
As is our annual tradition, we’d thought we’d share some silly stories with you on April 1. Holstein saves the farm SENECA FALLS, NY – Thanks to a prizewinning Holstein, John DeLieter’s Buttercup Meadows Farm will struggle no more. The “cash cow” isn’t a show cow. In fact, Anita is one of the smalle...
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Laura Rodley 
Posted on March 28, 2025
At the end of February, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced that March would officially be declared Massachusetts Maple Month . Fourth generation maple syrup producer Howard Boyden has been involved in making maple syrup all his life. His father Ray Boyden built their existing sugarhouse in Co...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on March 26, 2025
When highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) became widespread in chickens, farmers were forced to eliminate entire flocks and egg prices rose. Adding complexity to the issue was the diagnosis of HPAI in dairy cattle. Behind the scenes, researchers worked to understand and slow the spread of HPAI. ...
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Kelsi Devolve 
Posted on March 26, 2025
Farm Credit East recently invited two experts to present data at the 2025 Grain and Oilseed Outlook. Tanner Ehmke and Jacqui Fatka are CoBank lead economists, specializing in grains and oilseeds and farm supply and biofuels, respectively. Ehmke provided a baseline of where the industry sat at the to...
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Andy Haman 
Posted on March 26, 2025
“Don’t let yourself be boxed in,” Brooke White of Don’s Dairy Supply closed her session at the 2025 Ag Solutions and Networking Expo at SUNY Cobleskill. The expo, hosted by the college, CCE Schoharie & Otsego, New York Farm Bureau and others, was focused on local and regional agricultural interests....
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Kelsi Devolve 
Posted on March 26, 2025
The Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) hosted their 23rd annual winter conference recently at SNHU. Daniel King, the owner and manager of Clarkridge Farm in Goffstown, NH, presented his recommendations for effective, mobile and low-cost fencing techniques for pigs and cows. Clarkridge Farm...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on March 26, 2025
Country Folks classifieds for March 19 lists 28 hay for sale ads. In addition to that section are three more hay ads on the “farmer-to-farmer” page. None of those ads mentions forage analysis. Almost without exception, any farmer I’ve talked to who has purchased out-of-region hay has been provided f...
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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...
