Crop Notes: Spring 2018
It’s May 30, it’s topping 80 degrees and it feels like mid-summer. First cutting is underway with a vengeance. Clear alfalfa is close or exceeds three feet if it hasn’t lodged and just showing ...
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Dairy Girl Network Peer Group
Plans are underway for a Dairy Girl Network Peer Group for the Central New York area. This peer group is focused on building camaraderie with other dairy women, sharing ideas and experiences, and encouraging ...
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First Cutting Updates: Utilizing Alfalfa Height as a Predictor for Quality
The SCNY team is going to monitor alfalfa heights again this spring to help predict quality and %NDF. Alfalfa height has been proven to be a reliable indicator of NDF values in the field ...
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Pathogen Based Treatment: Is on-farm culturing right for your operation?
Current trends in dairy have producers asking how they can do things differently. Questions asked include how can we cut costs while maintaining production? How can we improve herd health without spending a lot ...
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Now Enrolling Herds: Linking Lameness and Lying Times in Tie Stall Facilities
Betsy Hicks, Area Dairy Specialist with the South Central NY Dairy & Field Crops Team is enrolling herds that house their milking string in tie-stall facilities in a project evaluating the effect of tie-stall ...
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Preventing Residues: More paperwork, but necessary to protect your business!
Do you keep track of cows – and calves – that you treat?? I don’t care the size of your operation, or whether you have lactating cows or just raise heifers. If you treat ...
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Managing Inventories: Planning for Forage Needs Throughout the Winter
January 1, by the calendar, is the fresh new start for the year. In reality, though, farmers don’t operate on a calendar basis, we work around the growing season. What is put up during ...
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Caring for Calves in Cold Weather
Are you doing all you can to keep calves healthy and growing? Winter came in all of a sudden this year – in early December, we had some seriously cold nights followed by a ...
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2018 NYCO Winter Meetings
NYCO winter meetings have grown from a gathering of six organic grain producers in the Martens Farms farmhouse kitchen in 1994 to filling the auditorium at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva. More than ...
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Crop Notes: Looking Back on 2017
With winter settling in and harvest behind us, it’s a good time to reflect on the past growing season and to consider what went well and what adjustments could be made for future improvements ...
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