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Posted on January 8, 2025
Sarah Hirsh, an Extension educator at University of Maryland, shared cover cropping case studies from Maryland’s Eastern Shore at a recent Northeast Cover Crop Council meeting. The case studies are part of a multiyear grant which includes support from USDA-NRCS and the National Fish & Wildlife Found...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on January 8, 2025
On the morning of Dec. 23, our remote-sensing thermometer had just climbed up to 0º, having plunged to -7º a few hours earlier under a half-moon in a clear sky. There’s a good chance that night would prove to be the coldest one in 2024. In the preceding 48 hours, downtown Hartwick accrued about five...
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Troy Bishopp, NatGLC Northeast 
Posted on January 1, 2025
TUCSON, AZ – Farmers from around the East Coast fed their animals, put another log on the fire, packed their bags and took to the friendly skies, joining over 540 farmers and ranchers at the sold out ninth National Grazing Lands Coalition (NatGLC) Conference Dec. 4 – 6. The journey suggested “The sk...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on January 1, 2025
Several months ago, my friend Corey called me with a cattle feeding question. He oversees a small biodynamic dairy in Columbia County, NY. He had just gotten the bulk tank results back from the lab. They told him that milk urea nitrogen (MUN) was running 25 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl). MUN is a...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on December 25, 2024
Raising heifers has changed over the years, and Penn State ag engineer John Tyson said there are still some new concepts in heifer housing. “Calves and heifers represent the best genetic potential on the farm,” said Tyson, who spoke recently at the Penn State Dairy Nutrition Workshop. “That’s why we...
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Andy Haman 
Posted on December 25, 2024
“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.” Sarah Cornelisse of Penn State Extension began a recent webinar with that Bill Gates quote. Complaints have value: Your clientele care about the ultimate success of your business and complaints offer a unique window into prospect...
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jkarkwren, Sally Colby 
Posted on December 25, 2024
As the livestock industry takes hits for its purported role in global warming, researchers are working on science-based concepts for potential methane reduction from dairy cattle. Dr. Guillermo Boggio, University of Wisconsin post-doctoral research associate, explained that methane emissions represe...
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Farmer Ben Simons 
Posted on December 25, 2024
On Nov. 30, the New York Hot Farm Pulling Series club had their annual banquet and award ceremony at Vernon Downs Event Center featuring food, dancing and fun with a live band. There were 80 members (with their significant others and family members) in attendance. The NYHFPS is a tractor pulling clu...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on December 25, 2024
As this year’s first cutting hay-making season was going great, I expected that warmer-than-normal conditions might harm hay quality. I knew that Northeast growing degree days were piling up unusually fast. To wrap my mind around ongoing crop performance data, I contacted Mike Reuter, an analytic se...
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