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Contented animals pave the road to success at Happy Pasture Farm

Pat Malin

Posted on November 22, 2013

NORTH BROOKFIELD, NY — A flock of white turkey hens is busy clucking, loudly announcing the arrival of a visitor to Happy Pasture Farm. Yet they remain blissfully unaware of the impending holidays and their fate. Happy Pasture Farm raises and sells grass-fed, free range turkeys, ducks, chickens, gui...

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Fulton County Farm Bureau holds united front with Montgomery County farmers

Elizabeth A. Tomlin

Posted on November 22, 2013

Fulton County Farm Bureau members and directors met for their annual meeting at the Perthshire Restaurant in Perth, NY on Oct. 25 to reaffirm past resolutions, discuss proposed resolutions and hold this year’s election of Directors. In addition to other resolutions reaffirmed at the local level, fun...

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Fellowship of Christian Farmers keeps ECHOing its message

Lee Newspapers

Posted on November 15, 2013

by Gary Elliott, Country Folks Assistant Editor I knew that I was in for a working vacation that would fit me like a glove when the Lee Publications Outreach Committee selected me earlier this year to go on a Christian Mission Trip with the Fellowship of Christian Farmers International organization ...

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The NY Ayrshire Club announces scholarship winner

Lee Newspapers

Posted on November 15, 2013

The New York Ayrshire Club is pleased to announce that Samuel Starceski, as the 2013 calf scholarship recipient. Samuel is the 14-year-old son of Paul and Robin Starceski. The Starceski family farm is in Sherman, NY. Samuel’s responsibilities on the family farm are to do the heifer barn chores. This...

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2013 ADADC annual meeting addresses decrease in fluid milk consumption

Elizabeth A. Tomlin

Posted on November 15, 2013

Members of the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council, Inc. (ADADC), District 5, gathered for their 2013 annual meeting at the Best Western in Cobleskill. Among the topics discussed, the decline in sales of fluid milk was of high priority. “We have concerns about protecting the standards of th...

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Sustained nutrition and optimal cow performance

Tamara Scully

Posted on November 15, 2013

There’s a new paradigm in cattle feeding. Northern New York beef producers pulled up a seat at the table, joining together in several community venues to view a presentation by Ted Perry, animal nutritionist for Purina, and former Cornell University Beef Extension and Research Specialist, to hear ju...

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Middle ground for a “labeled” animal activist?

Lee Newspapers

Posted on November 15, 2013

by Troy Bishopp, the Grass Whispere r At a Toastmasters International meeting I heard this rather simple expression, “I like oxygen, you like oxygen” by a young man describing the lowest form of agreement among people desperately trying to build consensus within a group. He also said, “Admitting the...

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Blue and gold forever

Steve Wagner

Posted on November 8, 2013

Ignite the Night, an FFA event, was appropriately named. The function at the Sheraton in Harrisburg, PA was further described as the 10th annual Blue and Gold Ball for FFA alumni. Besides alumni, a look around the ballroom would reveal the presence of two of the three Pennsylvania dairy princesses. ...

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Stockpiled pasture — seeing is believing

Lee Newspapers

Posted on November 8, 2013

DEANSBORO, NY — Just as squirrels salt away nuts for winter, farmers are also learning to store stockpile forage for late season harvest. This topic took center stage as 50 farmers from New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Ontario, Canada descended on the Bishopp Family Farm in Deansboro, NY to see t...