Today’s economy has every producer struggling to find ways to increase cash flow. We fill stalls, add a few more cows, keep plentiful heifers in the pipeline and estimate our projected inventory of first ...
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Northern Corn Leaf Blight (NCLB) has become a disease that impacts all corn growers to some extent. The disease has been moderate to severe over the last ten years or so. We had a ...
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In the corporate world, companies pay big bucks for leadership training. Businesses with hundreds or even thousands of employees invest in leadership development for managers who supervise dozens of people. This fascination with leadership ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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