Digital Dermatitis, or Hairy Heel Wart, as most dairy farmers know it, is a painful experience for the cow, and a frustrating and costly lameness issue for the farmer. The case study I’ll share ...
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The cropping season is wrapping up. Unfortunately, shlogging through mud was too common for silage harvest. By now, corn silage is in storage and final hay harvests are being made. Yields are slightly above ...
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By Alycia Drwencke and Betsy Hicks SWNY Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team & SCNY Dairy and Field Crops Team Calf care can be a tricky and frustrating task on farms. When everything runs ...
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By Richard Stup, Cornell Ag Workforce Development An important research project is gearing up in the next few weeks to understand what is happening with New York farm labor during this time of great ...
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by Christine Georgakakos & Betsy Hicks A strong ‘us versus them’ paradigm exists between large and small farms and organic and conventional farms in central New York over the topics of antibiotic usage and ...
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This is the SCNY Team’s fourth and final week of monitoring alfalfa heights for first cutting quality in 2021. A full report for the six-county region can be found in the following link: Alfalfa ...
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This is the SCNY Team’s third full week of monitoring alfalfa heights for first cutting quality in 2021. A full report for the six-county region can be found in the following link: Alfalfa Height ...
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By Christine Georgakakos & Betsy Hicks Managing manure is one of the many full-time jobs that dairy farmers integrate into day-to-day operations. Many of the multi-generation farms or multiple partner farms we interviewed divided ...
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Project Objective: Graziers who participate will fine tune their grazing skills to help improve pasture output by learning how weather conditions (rainfall, temperature) interact with management decisions (residue height, rest) to affect regrowth in ...
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I had a pasture soil compaction epiphany while working in a St. Lawrence County pasture on a NE SARE-supported project. The project was to plant radishes and other brassicas into established pasture swards. The ...
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