Most farms operate in an environment characterized by significant uncertainty, where managing risk is a daily concern. Risk management conversations often emphasize how to deal with uncertain yields and prices. However, people are also ...
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Cornell Cooperative Extension’s South Central NY Area Dairy & Field Crops Team presents its annual Winter Crop Meeting on Friday, January 24th, at the Clarion Inn, 2310 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca, NY. This meeting ...
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Cornell University faculty Dr. Sabine Mann and Dr. Tom Overton are leading a research project titled The effect of season as well as dry period management and nutrition on colostrum quality and quantity. ...
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Beginning January 1, 2020, New York farm employers face several major changes to the laws that govern farm employment. Labor is one of the largest inputs for most New York farm businesses and one ...
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Have you ever heard the business adage: “You can’t manage what you don’t measure?” When it comes to the financial side of your farm business, good record keeping is the first step to measuring ...
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New York Certified Organic (NYCO) has announced a new location for its 2020 meeting series. Martin Auction Barn, located at 1036 NY Route 318 in Waterloo, NY, will host the meetings while the auditorium ...
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By Lindsay Ferlito, North Country Regional Ag Team, and Betsy Hicks, South Central NY Dairy and Field Crops Team Learn more about this topic at one of our FREE cow comfort workshops! We are ...
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Fall is the season when organizations like Farm Bureau and Cornell Cooperative Extension host annual meetings and reflect on the major challenges and accomplishments of the past year. While our team is in the ...
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Plants need water to photosynthesize and grow. No hay producer or grazer would disagree with this statement. Yet if I asked a group of farmers what they do in the absence of rain, and ...
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Should you sign up for Dairy Margin Coverage in 2020? Cornell Professor of Agricultural Economics Andrew Novakovic shares his thoughts on DMC in 2020, and the factors that a dairy operation should consider when ...
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