This is the team’s fourth week and final week of monitoring heights for first cutting quality in 2023. The full report for our six-county region (Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins Counties) can be ...
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This is the team’s third week of monitoring heights for first cutting quality in 2023. The full report for our six-county region (Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins Counties) can be found in the ...
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This is the team’s second week of monitoring heights for first cutting quality in 2023. The full report for our six-county region (Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins Counties) can be found in the ...
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This is the team’s first week of monitoring alfalfa heights for first cutting quality in 2023. The full report for our six-county region (Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins Counties) can be found in ...
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When will your corn be ready? There was early planting and late planting this year and maturity in the field is following suit. Sixty days is the length of time, on average, that it ...
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By mid-August the options for boosting forage inventory are limited. A winter small grain (rye, triticale, or wheat) can be planted immediately after corn silage harvest for early spring forage harvest. A second option ...
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Feeding dairy cows in the summertime comes with its own unique set of challenges. These challenges can manifest as variable dry matter intakes, sorting, butterfat issues or metabolic issues, and more. While most of ...
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June 14, 2022 – Grazing dairy heifers on pasture can reduce the cost of production and, for bred heifers, improve health at calving. Allowing the heifer to harvest its own forage and spread its ...
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After being involved with grazing livestock for much of my life, first on my family’s dairy then owning a grazing dairy, and finally working here at CCE, I am surprised that more grazing doesn’t ...
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By Betsy Hicks, CCE Dairy Management Specialist & Troy Bishopp, Upper Susquehanna Coalition/ Madison County SWCD From May to November 2021, several farms participated in a pasture regrowth monitoring project. Troy Bishopp of the ...
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