by Elizabeth A. Tomlin

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Award recipient Mike Hunter spoke to attendees about weed control in soybeans, with an emphasis on identifying and controlling herbicide-resistant weeds. “We’ve got to start spraying, really, by numbers now,” Hunter advised, explaining studies show some weeds with resistance to multiple sites of action. “We have a lot of glyphosate-resistant and ALS-resistant marestail in New York State, and that’s been difficult to deal with and it’s changed a lot of how we deal with soybeans and soybean weed controls.” (more…)

by Senator James L. Seward

Earlier this year the New York City-centric senate leadership, for political reasons, blocked Amazon and 25,000 jobs from coming to our state. Now, in the closing hours of the 2019 legislative session, the same group of “leaders” are killing off existing jobs by targeting our state’s number one industry – agriculture. (more…)

by Katie Navarra

Nick Tommell and his family are savvy businesspeople who have implemented the practices of Kansas feedlots to maximize profits on tight margins on their Berne, NY, farm. The family’s CN Tommell Cattle Company, LLC buys and aggregates pastured beef cattle from farms and sale facilities across the Northeast and bring them home to be “backgrounded” and put through a custom feeding and health preconditioning program before sending them to Kansas to be finished at 1,200 to 1,400 pounds for specific markets. Thus, it was only fitting that the family’s farm hosted Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Backgrounding Beef Cattle workshop on June 13, 2019. (more…)

by Elizabeth A. Tomlin

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Awards from the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program (NYSIPM) were presented during Cornell’s 2019 Field Crops field day held at the Musgrave Research Farm in Aurora, NY. (more…)

by Sally Colby

Farmers are adopting a new twist on no-till – they’re planting green. The concept involves planting a cash crop into a cover crop prior to spraying or rolling the cover crop down, resulting in an overlap of the life cycles of two crops. The system begins in autumn with a carefully planned cover crop, so now is the time to begin planning for planting green. (more…)

Fill a Glass with Hope gets nutrient-rich milk to Central PA Food Bank – Williamsport

TROY, PA — Families utilizing food banks in the Bradford County area will have access to fresh milk thanks to the Bradford County Dairy Promotion Board and Dairy Princess Team and the Fill a Glass with Hope® campaign. (more…)