Dear farmers, ag businesses, partners and friends, Our South Central NY Dairy and Field Crops Team is open for business! We are responding to COVID-19 social distancing and NYS workplace mandates by working from ...
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Time to start planning your 2020 crop protection strategy. Make an appointment with a Crop Insurance Agent before the March 16th deadline to obtain insurance for corn, soybean, and other spring planted crops. Combining ...
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March 16 is the deadline to sign up for Risk Management Agency (RMA) insurance products covering 2020 spring planted crops. Make your appointment now with your crop insurance sales agent. One of the key ...
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With the Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) Program having launched version 4.0, dairy owners are now tasked with supplying continuing education (CE) for their employees (both family and non-family) that have animal care responsibilities. ...
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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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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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Consumers, more now than ever, are interested where their food comes from. Consumer perceptions of agriculture shape preferences in their food choices, which in turn shape requirements from grocery retailers that get passed down ...
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Most people engaged in agriculture will agree that there is no place for harassment, sexual or otherwise, on farms. It is easy to make this case from an ethical standpoint (remember the golden rule), ...
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Our team just conducted a short survey to gather information about dairy farmer preferences and educational needs related to the new Dairy Margin Coverage program. Many thanks to the 30 farms that completed our survey! The Dairy ...
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