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...

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...

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 (...

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...

According to the Weather Channel, before a huge crowd filled with excitement and anticipation, and bundled up against temperatures in the 20s, a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Feb. 2 in Gobbler’s Notch, western Pennsylvania. Phil seeing his shadow means humans should expect to s...

With the disclaimer that any and all topics being discussed at 8 a.m. on Feb. 4 might be flipped upside down at any given time – given tongue in cheek, of course – the higher-ups of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association provided their Washington, D.C., issues update at their annual CattleCon in ...

LOWESVILLE, VA – Bill Tucker has had so many successes over so many years across so many parts of the cattle industry it’s tempting to compare him to an accomplished triathlete. Or Michael Phelps, the Olympic swimmer who won gold medals across so many Olympics events. Tucker is best known for produc...

Snowmobile tourism brings significant income to northern states – but depends on the goodwill of landowners and snowmobile club members. The two entities must cooperate to maintain thousands of miles of trails. New York State alone has 10,500 miles of trails maintained by 250 clubs. Sharon Pathfinde...

The maple industry in general is a “rapidly expanding industry,” stated Mark Cannella, an Extension associate professor at the University of Vermont (UVM). In early January, Cannella led Farm Credit East’s 2025 Maple Industry Outlook, analyzing trends in the maple industry and discussing expected ch...