Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Pro-Dairy and Central New York Dairy/Field Crops Team recently presented workshops on new technologies and studies aimed at improving dairy resiliency. The topics involving breeding programs and dairy profitability were covered in an article in the March 25 edition of...

LIBERTY, NY – The public is being asked to help keep the doors open full-time at Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Sullivan County following a 20% cut in funding by the Sullivan County Legislature, due to its financial challenges. This request for community support comes after a unanimous vote lat...

More than 100 farmers and others advocating agriculture turned out for this year’s No Farm No Food Rally in Albany on Wednesday, March 13. Sixteen teams met on the third floor terrace of the Legislative Office Building to implore 64 senators and assembly members to seriously consider three prioritie...

Farmers from around New York State attended workshops presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Pro-Dairy and Central NY Dairy/ Field Crops Team to obtain information on new technologies and studies aimed at improving dairy resiliency. Reproduction programs, barn lighting technology, optimizing f...

George Wright of Metcalfe, Ontario, just north of New York State, has developed a unique business plan that allows him to support his family of five with just 44 acr es, cropping about 20 acres a year in organic grains. His secret? Marketing just about all his grain at a very well-attended farmers’ ...

“Marketing is everything from the customer’s point of view,” explained Julie Fox, Ph.D. Program Director of Direct Marketing at Ohio State University South Centers College of Food, Ag. & Environmental Sciences – Extension & OARDC. Businesses must make information across a number of channels to meet ...

In a press release today, the New York Farm Bureau made the following statement on the recently proposed minimum wage increase “New York’s farmers understand the value of hard work for a good day’s pay, but that pay must come from somewhere. Increasing the minimum wage at a time when a farmer is pay...

The Chenango County Farm Bureau is hosting an Agriculture Day Celebration on March 20, 2013. This year’s theme is: “Generations Nourishing Generations”. New York FFA State Secretary Leann M. Green will be doing a presentation. There will be several legislators (and/or representatives), speakers invi...