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Cornell Webinar Series Research on Customer Spending at NY Farmers Markets
Do you sell at a farmers market or your own farm store in New York? Are you interested in getting assistance with using and analyzing point of sale data to boost sales and revenues? Matt LeRoux and Todd Schmit at Cornell’s Agricultural Marketing Research Program are working with NY’s farms to collect data using POS Read More…
Northeast SARE 2024 Farmer Grant Proposals: Grants Up To $30,000 Available for Farmers
The Call for 2024 Northeast SARE Farmer Grants is now available. Approximately $800,000 has been allocated to fund projects for this grant cycle. Awards of up to $30,000 are available, depending on the complexity of a project. The online system for submitting proposals will open on September 15,2023. Proposals are due no later Read More…
USDA Disaster Designation for New York Will Assist Farms Impacted by May Freeze 8/22 UPDATE for Farm Wineries
This article was republished from Morning Ag Clips: https://www.morningagclips.com/usda-disaster-designation-for-new-york-will-assist-farms-impacted-by-may-freeze/ ALBANY — State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball announced that 31 counties across New York State have been designated as a primary natural disaster area by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) following the late May frost/freeze event. These designations mean that impacted farmers in Read More…
USDA Disaster Designation for New York Will Assist Farms Impacted by May Freeze
This article was republished from Morning Ag Clips: https://www.morningagclips.com/usda-disaster-designation-for-new-york-will-assist-farms-impacted-by-may-freeze/ ALBANY — State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball announced that 31 counties across New York State have been designated as a primary natural disaster area by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) following the late May frost/freeze event. These designations mean that impacted farmers in Read More…
Dealing with storm/flood damage on your farm.
Maire Ullrich, CCE Orange County and Elizabeth Higgins, CCE ENYCH If you have had flooding in your fields or crop damage due to storms here are some guidelines to follow. First Steps – Document the Damage If you have flood/storm damage to your crops it is important that you remember to take pictures and document Read More…
Online Worker Protection Standard (WPS) Train the Trainer Course Approved
Teresa Rusinek, Extension Specialist CCE Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program The WPS is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation intended to protect agricultural workers and pesticide handlers from risk of exposure. If you are an agricultural employer or manager, you must know your responsibilities under the WPS and provide WPS training and protections to employees. Read More…
Nourish New York – Now a Permanent Program in New York and a Market for Wholesale Produce
Elizabeth Higgins, Extension Associate CCE Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture Program At the end of 2021 Nourish NY became a permanent program in NYS Ag and Markets Law1. The law requires the NYS Department of Agriculture to facilitate a connection between farmers and food banks to ensure that New York State agricultural products (dairy, fruit, Read More…
Developments in Robotic Farm Technology
Check out this interesting video that was forwarded to us by Dr. Lynn Sosnoskie, a Cornell Assistant Professor of Weed Ecology and Management for Specialty Crops. She attended the FIRA conference in Fresno, CA recently where much of this robotic technology was showcased. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/StKLHD7LGT0
Would you like to save on your farm energy bills?
Ag Energy NY is a program by Cornell Cooperative Extension, developing a resource hub to support farm energy efficiency in New York. AgEnergyNY.org includes mobile-friendly webpages and print-friendly factsheets to help farmers learn about potential energy use and savings specific to their farm sector.
NEW RESEARCH REPORT: How NY Farmers Adapted to New Farm Labor Overtime Requirements
by Richard Stup, Elizabeth Higgins, Jason Karszes, Bradley Rickard and Christopher Wolf New York farmers are putting much thought into adapting their businesses in response to the state’s farm labor overtime requirements. Cornell researchers are studying how farms adapted and continue to adapt to changing regulatory requirements and to an overall tight and competitive labor market. Read More…
New Regulations for the H2A Program Become Effective November 12, 2022
The final rule, which is available on the Federal Register, won’t be officially published there until Oct. 12, and it becomes effective Nov. 12. Changes to the program include governmental authority to ban some people from the program for misconduct, upgrades to worker housing requirements and inspections, updates to bond requirements for labor contractors, mandatory electronic Read More…