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Posted on February 19, 2025
Each year, Farm Credit East hosts a Dairy Outlook webinar to inform farmers of the latest trends in the dairy industry and to review statistics from the past year. Christopher Wolf, the E.V. Baker Professor of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University, led this year’s discussion reviewing the U.S...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on February 19, 2025
Treating employees well is not only the right thing to do, it’s also the law. Richard Stup, Ph.D., director of Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development, presented “Employment Laws You Need to Know” at the recent Operations Management Conference hosted by Cornell PRO-DAIRY and the Northeast Dairy P...
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Courtney Llewellyn 
Posted on February 19, 2025
In his recent NFL MVP speech, Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen advised everyone to “Be good, do good.” Fortunately, the Dairy Pricing Association knows exactly how to do that in the most effective way. Like Josh Allen, everyone serving in leadership position or as a member of the DPA is a farmer...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on February 19, 2025
Everyone in agriculture has either managed a cash crunch or will eventually deal with one. Jodi Gauker, Extension educator, business development at Penn State, defines a cash flow crunch as the result of insufficient money in an account to pay bills. “Some may have the philosophy that if there’s mon...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on February 19, 2025
My classic 1959 copy of “Morrison’s Feeds and Feeding” (22nd edition) comes in quite handy in balancing livestock rations. That hardcover book was a relatively new text when I took basic livestock nutrition at Cornell under Professor Richard Warner in 1966. Dietary energy need was expressed in TDN (...
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Courtney Llewellyn 
Posted on February 17, 2025
It’s unthinkable when it happens, but fortunately a strong community exists for when a farm tragedy – of whatever nature – occurs. That’s what we’re seeing unfold with the news of a roof collapse at Insight Dairy LLC in Little Falls, NY, on Feb. 16. This region of Upstate New York is infamous for it...
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Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
Posted on February 12, 2025
With the increasing promotion and adoption of cover cropping practices, some growers are seeking novel ways to terminate their cover crops. Roller crimpers are one strategy, but a new 30-foot roller crimper is currently priced at around $30,000. According to Ryan Schmid, growers are reluctant to mak...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on February 12, 2025
In a presentation for Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, financial advisor Henry Mondschein, Connect Financial Group LLC, provided farmers with information on estate planning. Mondschein’s admonition was “a will does not make a transition plan.” “Today, there are about two million family farms across the nat...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on February 12, 2025
At the risk of sounding out of touch, it’s true that technology sometimes doesn’t improve upon the “old-fashioned way” of doing something. Dennis Buckmaster, representing Purdue University, presented “Digital Tech in Agriculture: Boon, Bane, Barrier or Blessing?” at the recent New York Ag Society Fo...
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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...
