The NWNY region’s NYFVI Project Outreach on-farm tour is coming up next week, and all are invited to attend. The cost of the event is free, but registration is required. Lunch will be provided thanks to New York Farm Viability Institute grant funding.
What: NYFVI Project Outreach: Transition Cow On-Farm Tour
When: Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Where: Hemdale Farms; 2801 Orleans Rd., Seneca Castle, NY
Register here: https://nwnyteam.cce.cornell.edu/event.php?id=1708
Details: Hemdale Farms is proud to host a farm tour focusing on cow comfort and transition cow facilities as it relates to a NY Farm Viability Institute grant project over the last two years. CCE Regional Dairy Specialists will go over results and benchmarks from assessments of these areas from all 15 farms involved in the study, and Hemdale will share areas they’ve worked to improve related to fresh and transition cow comfort, as well as give a farm tour and answer questions about their robotic operation. The tour is free to all participants, but registration is required.
Background: CCE Regional Dairy Specialists, Margaret Quaassdorff, Betsy Hicks, and Lindsay Ferlito are completing a grant funded by the New York Farm Viability Institute titled, “Focus on Farm Management”. The goal of the project was to identify best management practices implemented on farms in New York State, and to help farms share with others the practical ways in which they were implemented. Farms that participated in the project were also asked to identify an area of their farm that they wanted to improve upon, and to document changes made and results as they reached their end goal. As part of the outreach portion of the project, one farm in each of the Northwest, South Central, and North Country Regions of the state were asked to host an on-farm tour to showcase best management practices on their farm.
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