Pasture Flies: Take the Integrated Approach to Control

Pasture season is here, and along with it comes flies. The three of most concern are face fly, horn fly and stable fly. They each have their own feeding locations on livestock but have ...
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July 14, 2025Emerging Issues, Grazing, Organic, Small FarmsBeef, face flies, horn flies, pasture flies, stable flies

Questions about HPAIV in dairy cows and how it relates to food safety?

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) Join a team of dairy food experts for the next Special Session of Dairy Foods Virtual Office Hours! We will ...
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May 22, 2024Dairy Alert, Emerging Issues, Events

Update: Bovine Influenza A Virus (BIAV) or Avian Influenza in Livestock

Our knowledge of avian influenza in dairy cattle is an evolving situation.  Novel diseases are similar to new technology; we learn how to better manage them as we spend more time interacting with them ...
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April 24, 2024Dairy Alert, Emerging Issues

HPAI Update in Dairy Cattle and New Biosecurity Recommendations

Updated 4/8/24: A recording of the Institute for Food Safety at Cornell University’s presentation “What Dairy Industry/Consumers should know about the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnWeh_zafV4 Please see below ...
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April 3, 2024Emerging Issues

Strategic Deworming of the Beef Herd: Continuing the Resistance Fight

Strategic Deworming of the Beef Herd: Continuing the Resistance Fight What are internal parasites? How do I know if my cattle has internal parasites? How can I tell if my cattle have resistant worms? ...
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June 5, 2023Emerging Issues, Small Farms, UncategorizedBeef, Deworming, Internal Parasites, Refugia

Be Prepared for Animal Activists

Good afternoon, There was an organized activist event for the area led by Direct Action Everywhere (DXE), a well-known activist group which apparently occurred Saturday, April 15. There has been reported cases of suspicious ...
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April 25, 2023Emerging Issues, Farm Business Management, Small FarmsDairy, Hay, Livestock, Pasture, Pasture Management

Prepare Now for the Loss of Over-the-Counter Antimicrobials For Livestock

By June 11, 2023, all over the counter, medically important, antimicrobial products will require a prescription from your veterinarian in order to purchase. There are still some unknowns about this transition, but now is ...
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December 2, 2022Emerging Issuesanimal health, Dairy Producers, Livestock

Economics of Growing Hemp for Cannabidiol (CBD) in NYS

  Economics of Growing Hemp for Cannabidiol (CBD) in NYS:  Expected Costs, Revenues and Returns for Three Hemp CBD Production Systems, 2022 Working Paper Hanchar, J., S. Shelnutt, D. Vergara, L. Pashow, Cornell University/CALS ...
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October 28, 2022Emerging Issues, Farm Business ManagementCannabidiol, Economics, Hemp, Productions Systems, Working Paper

Monkeypox: Educate your Farm Employees

Although we are still all dealing with and trying to recover from a global pandemic, we now need to be aware of a new disease emerging throughout the USA: Monkeypox.  The Center for Disease ...
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August 11, 2022Emerging IssuesEmployee Training, Farm Employees, Farm Employers, Farm Worker Housing

Hearing About Union Activity on Farms in Your Area?

There has been a lot of discussion lately around the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act (FLFLPA), which went into effect January 1, 2020, surrounding the changes to overtime regulations.  This is just a ...
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June 30, 2022Emerging IssuesAg Workforce Development, Dairy, Farm Employees, Union Activity