by Sally Colby
Beginning beef producers have more to consider than which breed to raise and developing a market strategy. Good handling facilities are a critical aspect of a successful beef operation and should be in place before the first animal arrives on the farm. (more…)
by Elizabeth A. Tomlin
National Dairy Council Chair Audrey Donahoe recognizes the impact the Dairy Princess Program has on dairy promotion in New York State. (more…)
by Laura Rodley
HINSDALE, NH – The days might be getting colder, but there’s still wood to be cut to get ready for next spring’s maple sugaring season at Pelloni’s Farm Market. Maple syrup, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, winter and summer squash and jam are just some of the items that Greg Pelloni sells seven days a week at his family-run indoor seasonal vegetable farm market. (more…)
by Troy Bishopp
NORTHFIELD, VT — When Dave Pratt, owner of Ranch Management Consultants and the internationally acclaimed Ranching for Profit School comes to the Northeast, you know you’re in for an experience in reality. (more…)
by Laura Rodley
CARLISLE, MA – Great Brook Farm was the first farm in Massachusetts to install a robotic milker. When they installed it, the design included cow traffic flow, two electronic sort gates and a large bulk tank. (more…)
by Laura Rodley
Despite pouring rain, 17 antique tractor enthusiasts hit the road during the third annual Franklin County Chapter’s Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation’s Antique Tractor Ride, covering 29.5 miles in scenic Western Massachusetts. The riders departed from and returned to Shelburne, MA. (more…)
by Hope Holland
Much of the East Coast has suffered an almost crippling amount of rain in 2018. This has resulted in loss of crops and livestock from extensive flooding, ruined bridges and homes and barns that have been underwater on multiple occasions. (more…)
by Stephen Wagner
It had been a few years shy of a decade since I had last seen and chatted with my old boss, Secretary of Agriculture Sam Hayes (R-PA). State Representative Mindy Fee holds a “farmers’ breakfast” twice a year, an occasion for her constituents to hear the state of Commonwealth and federal affairs by public officials who are in a position to know what’s going on. (more…)
by Courtney Llewellyn
Late last month, on a brisk autumn day in a greenhouse in Saratoga Springs, big news broke: American Farmland Trust had partnered with the State of New York, agricultural organizations, land trusts and others to launch Farmland for a New Generation New York. (more…)
by Elizabeth A. Tomlin
It’s a “buyers market.” Are you thinking of expanding your herd? Or maybe buying into an existing farm that has just come on the market?
You had better look twice. (more…)
by Stephen Wagner
Though I had seen Yvonne Longenecker at the Keystone International Livestock Expo, and another ag event I can’t recall, I missed her coronation at last year’s dairy pageant. At KILE she caught me up on her likes and dislikes and educational ambitions. She’s a foodie! “I love food,” she said in no uncertain terms. Jump forward to the latest edition, the 62nd Dairy Princess crowning.
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by Troy Bishopp
TRUMANSBURG, NY — While many area farmers were tackling the corn harvest and dodging raindrops, a small, passionate group of 20- and 30-something farmers gathered at the Devon Van-Noble Farm, around a smoker full of tasty pork with all the fixin’s, and delved head-first into a policy discussion about the National Young Farmer’s Coalition direction here in New York.
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