March is usually a great time to add some legumes by frost seeding into your pastures, hayfields, or winter small grains. It is a way to improve grasses without losing a production year. It ...
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Please join CCE Allegany, CCE Chautauqua, and CCE Livingston Counties; along with the NWNY & SWNY Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops Teams on Saturday, February 25, 2023 from 9:30am – 3:30pm at the Pioneer ...
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The Cornell Weed Ecology lab is conducting a survey on the most common weeds and the most difficult to manage weeds on dairy and field crop farms in New York State. If you ...
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The Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is part of the CRP program, a federally funded voluntary program that contracts with agricultural producers so that environmentally sensitive agricultural land is not farmed or ranched, but ...
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by Nancy Glazier Rotational grazing is the optimum way to utilize pastures. Shorter rotations are more efficient; dairy cows are generally moved to fresh paddocks twice a day while other livestock once a day ...
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by Jodi Putman Equine pasture management is a revolving system that requires year-round attention. Equine owners frequently expect their pastures to provide areas for exercise, training, and forage production but fail to provide proper ...
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By Nancy Glazier Did you know the NWNY Team has a YouTube Channel? With the pandemic still looming, it has given us an opportunity to reach farmers in diverse ways. I recently finished a video series covering pasture weed identification ...
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by Nancy Glazier The time is here for stockpiling pastures. As of today (July 17), conditions in the region are variable. Some areas have received some significant rains while others have missed out. Will ...
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Effect of Drought Stress on Corn There are many fields of pineappled corn across NWNY. The lack of rainfall is really starting to show and some plants are rolling at 9am. Later planted crops ...
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