by Jane Primerano
“There ain’t no island left for Islanders like me,” Billy Joel sings in “Downeaster Alexa,” but that isn’t quite true.
While Suffolk County is no longer one potato field after another, there are plenty of governmental and non-governmental organizations working hard to permanently preserve farmland. [Read more…]
by Rebecca Long Chaney
LOUISVILLE, KY — More than 900 Junior Hereford cattle exhibitors from 38 states and Canada traveled to Louisville to show Herefords and compete in 23 skilled competitions at the Junior National Hereford Expo (JNHE). Nearly 1,300 animals were exhibited in the largest junior national show of any breed. [Read more…]
by Paul Burdziakowski
The 33rd annual Northeast Youth Sheep Show (NEYSS) took place July 13-16 at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, MA. Admission was free for the third largest and longest running youth sheep show in the country. Exhibitors, 21 years old and younger, are drawn to this premier all-breed junior show each year because it provides them with a good opportunity to learn and practice their sheep showmanship skills. [Read more…]
Eighteen youth competed in the 4-H Beef Show at the Saratoga County Fair on Thursday, July 20. This show has tripled in size over the past three years and continues to grow. The show mainly consists of Angus and Hereford beef cows. [Read more…]
Western Bean Cutworm, an emerging pest of field and sweet corn in the Eastern U.S, prompted the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program to fund field research in 2016. The results of those trials are now posted at www.nnyagdev.org as the work continues in cornfields this summer. [Read more…]
by Deborah Jeanne Sergeant
SENECA FALLS, NY — The dairy barn at the Seneca County Fair felt a little lonesome to Jim Patsos, 71. Except only one year, the Waterloo, NY resident has shown cows every year since he was 11 years old. But this year, only one competitor arrived with dairy cows to exhibit and no beef cattle competed. Patsos enjoys the friendly competition and said he felt a little disappointment as to the meager turnout to the show barn. [Read more…]
by Sally Colby
At a time when many dairy farms are tentatively waiting out the plague of low milk prices and holding off on decisions, one family is planning their next move.
Harrison Hartman says that his grandfather’s 30-cow dairy in the 1960s was the basis for Scattered Acres, a family dairy farm which includes four properties in Berks and Lancaster counties. [Read more…]
by Elizabeth A. Tomlin
Walter Elwood Museum of the Mohawk Valley, located at 100 Church Street, Amsterdam, NY, celebrated their 2nd annual Dairy Day with Montgomery County’s Dairy Promotion team, headed up by American Dairy Association and Dairy Council (ADADC) NY District 5 Director / Montgomery County Dairy Promotion Chair, Terri Phillips-Nelson. [Read more…]