Thursday, 1 July 2021
For seed growers, seed treatment applicators, and other seed professionals
Place: NYSIP Foundation Seed Barn, 791 Dryden Rd., Rt. 366, Ithaca, NY
Time: 8:30 AM - 12:00 Noon

Join us for two evenings as experts from Cornell University and NYS Ag and Markets present and discuss the current opportunities and issues surrounding hemp grain and fiber production in New York State.

Tuesday, July 6 - Variety research, planting and harvesting methods, insects, weeds, and diseases.

Wednesday, July 7 - Processing and processors, hemp production economics, and the latest regulatory and policy updates from the New York State Dept. of Ag and Markets.

Free evening webinars with presentations by Cornell University and NYS Ag and Markets.

O'Mara Farm beef tour in Hubbardsville and Canastota.

The South Central NY Dairy and Field Crops Team is excited to announce that we will resume in-person meetings of our Central NY Dairy Girl Network Peer Group this summer. This peer group brings dairy women together to build camaraderie, share ideas and experiences, and learn from one another. We typically invite a guest to share an informal presentation about a topic of interest, and we encourage everyone to join the discussion. All women involved in any aspect of the dairy industry are welcome to attend.

Let's say you have a flock of 125 ewes in early lactation, all raising twins. You want to move them into a 3-acre field of improved fast-growing pasture. Question: How long can your flock graze in that field? Or a similar question: How many acres do you need to graze those sheep for 5 days? Or another question: How many inches of grass will a ewe eat each day to meet her nutrient requirements?

Reasons, Economics, & Practical Strategies

Join Jeff and Leslie Jorritsma on their alpaca farm in Prattsburgh NY for an in-person learning experience about raising alpacas for fiber. Topics will include buying, breeding, boarding, and birthing.

A walk through the process of becoming a certified pesticide applicator. Whether

you want to do landscaping, structural pest control, or agriculture, learn how
to qualify for the exam and start your new career. Register now.

Participants will tour the listed fields in the West Groton area before the meeting, then bring questions and comments to the meeting at the Scheffler's farm. Our focus will be on annual forages, small grains, soybeans, and corn, but welcome other crop questions as well. We will begin with a light lunch, so registration is required.

Cancelled due to lack of interest.  Contact Erik Smith for more information or to express interest in future events.

Join us for a free on-farm demonstration and discussion about the importance of adequate calf barn ventilation and the impacts ventilation has on calf health and performance. This program is applicable to any sized dairy farm, and any type of barn ventilation system.

Join CCE poultry experts as they help navigate the potential pitfalls of summer including predators, pasture management, and heat stress. This free lecture is sponsored by the Cornell Livestock Program Work Team. 

Carey Farm, Groton (Tompkins County) - With Cornell Cooperative Extension educators Fay Benson & Mary Kate MacKenzie.  Come see how Dan and Eric Carey graze nearly 300 dairy cows on 200 pasture acres in Groton, NY. Fay will discuss controlling soil compaction in grazing systems and present compaction data collected from the Carey's pastures for the past 3 years.

DEC Staff will explain the differences between minimum risk, general, and

restricted use pesticides, how to avoid common violations in the field, and how
to become certified applicators and register a pest control business. Register now.

Come see how Dan and Eric Carey graze nearly 300 dairy cows on 200 pasture acres in Groton, NY. With CCE educators Fay Benson & Mary Kate MacKenzie.

A gathering of farmers, makers, designers, manufacturers, educators, and others interested in strengthening NYS's textile supply chain. 

The Annual Summer Crop Tour will resume in person on August 5th, 2021 at Catalpa Farms in Canandaigua, NY. They are excited to welcome Rob Sharkey, better known to his many followers as The Shark Farmer, as the keynote speaker this year!

The Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) New York will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with a hybrid version of the Summer Conference for August 6-8, 2021. The conference will bring farmers and gardeners together from throughout the region to share experience and knowledge. Register now

Women for the Land Learning Circle - Conservation Action, followed by a bus tour at Table Rock Farm in Castile, NY

Open to all women involved in agriculture in New York, AFT invites you to join us for a peer-to-peer Learning Circle and Farm Tour this August. Our focus is Conservation in Action. Attendees will meet at an immersive photograph exhibit featuring western New York female farmers. We will hear about how conservation is put into action from a certified crop consultant who specializes in on-farm conservation planning. Then we will board a bus and head over to an award-winning family-run dairy, Table Rock Farm, that is at the forefront of agricultural innovation, to see it all in person. Meghan Hauser, a co-owner of the farm, will lead us through the efforts she and her team have implemented to make their 100+ year old farm an environmentally and economically thriving operation. After the tour, we will reflect on the experience and discuss action steps we can take to achieve our own conservation goals.

FACILITATORS: 

Stephanie Castle, American Farmland Trust
Joan Petzen, Cornell Cooperative Extension Northwest New York Dairy and Livestock Team
Lorie Ames, Western New York Crop Management Association
JoBeth Bellanca, USDA-NRCS
Meghan Hauser, Table Rock Farm

The 2021 Cornell Field Crops annual field day will be held August 12th highlighting the latest field crops research across CALS and providing an opportunity for in-person exchange of ideas and experiences. This year's program offers a wide variety of content from no-till planting into rolled cover crops to the use of unoccupied robotic vehicles to monitor plant growth and health.

Riverside Dairy is proud to host a farm tour focusing on cow comfort, calf care and transition cow facilities as it related to a NY Farm Viability grant project over the past year.  CCE Dairy Specialists will go over results and benchmarks from assessments of these areas from all 15 farms involved in the study and the farm will share areas they've worked to improve on their dairy, as well as give a farm tour of facilities.  The tour is free to all participants, but registration is required.  

Topics:  Cow Comfort, Calf Care, Transition Cow Facilities

Save the date for the 2021 Cornell Hemp Research and Extension Team Field Day on Thursday, August 12th. We are offering a hybrid field day this year—both in-person at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva and on Zoom.

Includes FAMACHA Training/Certification and How to do Fecal Egg ID/Counting

For those who cannot attend the in-person circle on August 9th, we will have a virtual meeting covering the same material. We will outline action-focused conservation steps and will be joined by Meghan Hauser, who will provide our group with her real-farm perspective. In the virtual meeting, we will have the opportunity to informally interact with one another and reflect on goal-setting and personal learning experiences.

Learn how the Troyer family is using pastures to achieve their goals for their 40-cow organic dairy. With Upper Susquehanna Coalition Grazing Management Specialist and grass farmer Troy Bishopp, the Grass Whisperer. 

The CCE North Country Regional Ag Team and CCE SCNY Team are excited to be hosting an 8-part virtual series on "Healthy, Hardy, Heifers". Running from October 1st to November 19th.

We're officially inviting you and your company to participate as a sponsor for one fee.

The Cornell Farmworker Program and the Finger Lakes Community Health clinic co-sponsor this free webinar with Dr. José Canario, and Ellen Hey, NP.  Local farmworkers will also be available to answer questions about their experiences being vaccinated

Join Dr. Jarra Jagne, poultry veterinarian and head of the Avian Health Program at Cornell's Animal Health Diagnostic Center in Ithaca, to learn about common internal and external parasites of poultry. Dr. Jagne will speak to the biology of these parasites and how to manage them for a healthy, successful flock.

All are invited to take part in this free in-person event highlighting land stewardship through soil health. Topics include how healthy soils reduce runoff; weed, insect, and disease challenges with tillage; and soil health indicators. NYS DEC Pesticide Recertification Credits are available: Category 1A- Ag Plant, 0.75 points and Category 21- Field and Forage, 0.75 points.

The Central NY Dairy Girl Network will meet on August 26 from 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm.  Please join us.  This group brings dairy women together to build camaraderie, share ideas, experience and learn from each other.  The meeting will be held at Rawley Park, located at 13334 NYS Route 38, Richford. This meeting will focus on the woman as an individual with hopes and dreams for their personal future.

Pasture reclamation & small ruminate grazing.

No-till cover cropping strategies, farmer-to-farmer discussion on soil health and the benefits of cover crops, display and demonstration of the farm's no-till drill, and a field tour

American Farmland Trust invites you to join us for a Soil Health Field Day on August 31, 2021 at Mulligan Farms in Avon, NY. They will share practical, field-tested results of advanced soil regenerative practices targeted to dairy, field and specialty crop farmers. Come learn from producer Forrest Watson about his evaluation of planting green to minimize herbicide use, improve soil health, and maintain productivity. A panel of Genesee River farmers will discuss how soil regenerative practices have impacted their farm's profitability, and there will be a special presentation to  provide a background to carbon markets on agricultural land. 

Join Cornell PRO-DAIRY Forage Specialist, Joe Lawrence, to discuss pre-harvest considerations for corn silage production. Topics that will be covered in this discussion style meeting will include harvest season safety, the importance of whole plant dry matter, chopper set-up for kernel processing and particle size, ensiling considerations and tips for success, molds and toxins, agronomics, and more depending on attendee interest.

Join Cornell PRO-DAIRY Forage Specialist, Joe Lawrence, to discuss pre-harvest considerations for corn silage production. Topics that will be covered in this discussion style meeting will include harvest season safety, the importance of whole plant dry matter, chopper set-up for kernel processing and particle size, ensiling considerations and tips for success, molds and toxins, agronomics, and more depending on attendee interest.

The CCE NWNY Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops Team will be working with Keystone Mills in Romulus, NY to put on a Dry-Down Day on September 3rd, 2021 from 10:00am to 2:00pm. Farmers in the local area are encouraged to cut a bundle of 3 stalks from each corn field that they would like to be tested for dry matter, and bring them to the mill between 10:00am and 2:00pm on that day.

Join Ryan and Annie Murray to learn how they have adapted New Zealand style grazing to manage their 90-cow organic Jersey herd in Truxton, NY. With NRCS grazing specialist Karen Hoffman.

Join the CCE NWNY Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops Team in Bliss, NY for a Dry-Down Day on September 9th, 2021 from 10:00am to 2:00pm.

Join the NWNY Team for a pasture walk at Valley View Devons, the farm of Phil Race and Sharon Pierce. They raise Devon cattle, pastured pigs and laying hens on rotationally grazed pasture and have worked closely with JoBeth Bellanca with NRCS for farm improvement cost share opportunities. Registration is required by September 7th.

Join us for a pasture walk at Valley View Devons, the farm of Phil Race and Sharon Pierce, 2765 Mt. Morris Nunda Townline Rd, Mt. Morris, NY. They raise Devon cattle, pastured pigs and laying hens on rotationally grazed pasture and have worked closely with JoBeth Bellanca with NRCS for farm improvement cost share opportunities.

The Southern Tier Sheep and Wool Grower's annual wool pool will be Friday, September 10, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday, September 11, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Otsego County Fair Grounds, Morris, NY. Only clean white wool, both good clean and off-sorts/short wool, will be accepted.

This sale will consist of 9 lots consisting of 300 head of USDA graded beef cattle as well as a set of exposed Angus Heifers. Cattle have been vaccinated using modified live vaccines for IBR, BRSV, PI3, BVD, and clostridia, and pasteurella, and have been de-wormed. 

Your Extension Specialists will be chipping corn stalks and checking dry matters to target corn silage harvest timing. We are collaborating with Tully Ag Center and John Winchell, Territory Sales Representative with ALLTECH. Dry matters will be determined using NIR, which allows a short turn-around time. Masks will need to be worn at the mill, as well as 6 feet of social distancing.

This is a free event!

This hybrid trainings includes a virtual lecture on September 15th and an in-person hands-on lab on September 21st. You must attend both sessions to receive certification and your FAMACHA card. Please register in advance by contacting Lynn Bliven at 585-268-7644 ext. 18 or lao3@cornell.edu.

This course was designed to assist new and aspiring farmers in taking the first steps in thinking through farm start-up (whether you already have land access or not).

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This course is appropriate for all levels. It is intended for producers just getting started with on-farm poultry processing, but even those who have been processing poultry for years will likely learn new techniques and ideas for improving the safety of the meat they sell.

https://smallfarms.cornell.edu...

Learn the software's basic features, such as
sales tax, inventory, invoicing, adjustments, and year-end procedures.

https://smallfarms.cornell.edu...

Learn how to read the land as you walk across
it, and how to conduct various biological practices, with this new 4-week
intensive

https://smallfarms.cornell.edu...

Join CCE Specialists and Educators from across the state as we discuss the most common flock-related questions of 2021. The educator panel will be accepting and answering your questions live!

Join farmers Kathie and Kirk Arnold on a tour of Twin Oaks Dairy LLC, which has been shipping certified organic milk since 1998. Rotational grazing is a foundational principle of the farm that keeps soils covered and sequestering carbon. They recently started planting trees in some of their pastures in a foray into silvopasture. This is their second year in making compost using the Elaine Ingham Bio Complete composting recipe and process.

Join the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Animal Fiber Team, together with three folks who are part of this amazing supply chain, on Thursday evening September 26th from 7:00 - 8:30 pm for an online event hosted by New York State Textile Month (NYTM) to hear their stories (followed by a Q&A).

The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is hosting a free webinar called "Preventing Avian Influenza Introductions: Focus on the Big Risks", which will introduce the concept of mitigating risks of avian influenza in commercial flocks.

Beef Expo Weekend

We have an awesome line-up of speakers and demos to keep the whole family busy! Lunch at noon (at attendee's expense). Multiple presentations going on at the same time - you pick which topic interests you! Speakers for the juniors too.

Includes FAMACHA Training/Certification and How to do Fecal Egg ID/Counting

Hemdale Farms is proud to host a farm tour focusing on cow comfort and transition cow facilities as it relates to a NY Farm Viability Institute grant project over the last two years. CCE Regional Dairy Specialists will go over results and benchmarks from assessments of these areas from all 15 farms involved in the study, and Hemdale will share areas they've worked to improve related to fresh and transition cow comfort, as well as give a farm tour and answer questions about their robotic  operation. 

The tour is FREE to all participants, but registration is required. 

REGISTER

Hemdale Farms is proud to host a farm tour focusing on cow comfort and transition cow facilities as it relates to a NY Farm Viability Institute grant project over the last two years.