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This website features content developed by Cornell Cooperative Extension specialists from the Northwest NY Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team. Our team is a partnership between Cornell University and the CCE Associations of Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming and Yates Counties.
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CROP ALERT – Pricing Corn Silage: Preliminary Fall 2025 Estimates

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Pricing Corn Silage – Preliminary Fall 2025 Estimates by John Hanchar Summary   Analysis suggests corn silage price depends upon corn silage quantities, alfalfa hay price, the price received by farmers for milk, and ...
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July 2, 2025Crop Alert, Farm Business Management, Field CropsCorn, Corn Silage

Upcoming Discussion Groups and Recap of the Value-Added Dairy Tour

by Margaret Quaassdorff On March 13th and 14th, a group of 23 farmers and small dairy processors from Western NY traveled with the CCE NWNY and SWNY Teams to successful farms and businesses who ...
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April 17, 2024Events, Farm Business Management, Success Stories

Your Participation is requested in our new Beef x Dairy in New York State Survey

beef x dairy survey flyer

by Margaret Quaassdorff   Attention Dairy Producers and Beef Farmers in NYS, and those advisors who work with them. Your insight is requested to help maintain the viability of the Beef x Dairy Industry ...
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October 25, 2023Beef x Dairy, Farm Business Management

Connect Your Hispanic Employees with Our Bilingual Resources!

The CCE NWNY Team is now offering a WhatsApp group for Hispanic dairy employees! The purpose of the group is to let your employees know about relevant upcoming events, programs or news such as: ...
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October 4, 2023Farm Business Management

Extension Bulletin 4-30-2023

Front of Extension Bulletin

Soil Health and Climate Resilient Farming: Quantifying a Farm’s Capacity to Achieve More Resilient Agricultural Production Systems Inside this issue include: Summary Background Approach, Methods and Data Results and Discussion Acknowledgments Cited Works Table ...
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May 2, 2023Farm Business Management

Be Prepared for Animal Activists

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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

Economics of Growing Hemp for Cannabidiol (CBD) in NYS

Hemp in High Tunnel

  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

Succession Planning Fact Sheet

Using a Facilitator to Keep Your Succession Planning Process on Track by Joan Sinclair Petzen Succession planning can be a daunting task. Many farm managers, particularly in smaller businesses, may only be involved in ...
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June 23, 2022Farm Business Management, Field CropsDairy, Facilitator, Fact Sheet, Succession Plan

Adapting to Rising Input Costs [Fertilizer Costs]

by Jodi Letham and John Hanchar Summary Assess the current market situation for inputs — for example, rising fertilizer prices and underlying availability concerns — by considering input output price ratios, and the production ...
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May 5, 2022Emerging Issues, Farm Business Management, Field CropsDairy, Fertilizer, Input Costs, Manure Management, Risk Management

Tax Credits for Agricultural Employers

Cornell Cooperative Extension, Agricultural Workforce Development

  This article from the Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development Program’s “Ag Workforce Journal” details the recently updated Farm Workforce Retention Credit and Farm Employer Overtime Credit.  Farm employers need to be certain their payroll ...
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April 22, 2022Emerging Issues, Farm Business ManagementAg Workforce, Dairy, Farm Employers, Overtime, Tax Credits
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