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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Location Updates As predicted, locations around the SCNY region gained around 100 GDD (B32) in the last week. The two images below show the cumulative Growing Degree Days (B32) for locations throughout the SCNY ...
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This past week gave us a little respite from field work, and bought us some time with the cooler (cold?) weather. The two images below show the cumulative Growing Degree Days (B32) for locations ...
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So far this season, we’ve been blessed with an actual feeling of nice spring weather. If you’re like me, though, you’re watching forage inventory with last year’s drought on your mind, and itching for ...
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Please join us for a series of virtual meetings covering practical soil health management topics. Weekly webinars will take place at 12:30pm on Tuesdays Feb 9 through March 2. The first session on Feb ...
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Cover cropping is a viable strategy for farmers to improve soil health and mitigate climate change. A recent USDA report shows that farmers in the Northeast are ahead of the national average when it ...
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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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