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December 8, 2014 By karalynn

Use NNY-Grown Vegs for Winter Soups & Stews

Northern New York Agricultural Development Program Horticulture Committee advisor Amy Ivy with CCE Clinton County shares inspiration and tips for using NNY-grown vegetables to make winter soups and stews. Click here to learn more and find winter vegetable storage tips.

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November 21, 2014 By karalynn

Tips for Barn Snow Removal

Winter has started early across Northern New York. Cornell Beef Extension Specialist Dr. Mike Baker shares some Do’s and Don’ts for Barn Snow Removal from Curt Gooch and Sam Steinberg of Cornell’s Biological and Environmental Engineering Department.

Click here for the details

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October 20, 2014 By karalynn

Media Stories: Alfalfa Snout Beetle Control

Please see two recent media stories on the NNYADP-funded alfalfa snout beetle control project that developed the use of native NY nematodes to help manage the highly-destructive alfalfa pest, the alfalfa snout beetle.

Lowville Journal Republican article by Whitney Randolph

Malone Telegram article by Olivia Pepe

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October 14, 2014 By karalynn

NNY Biocontrol May Help NY Apple Growers

A biocontrol treatment developed to help Northern New York alfalfa growers is now showing early promise of proving useful to New York apple growers.

Early field trials in four NY orchard plantings have shown a reduction of 70 to 97 percent, compared with untreated plantings, in the populations of plum curculio, a key pest of eastern U.S. apple crops.

With long-term funding from the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program, Cornell University entomologist Elson Shields developed a biocontrol protocol for using a combination of native New York nematodes to reduce alfalfa snout beetle populations in NNY alfalfa crops.

Shields and Cornell colleague Art Agnello are now applying nematodes to control plum curculio in organic-production apple plantings.

Read more

Note: The NNYADP has three new on-farm demonstration projects on dairy farms in Northern New York showing the value of using the nematodes to reduce alfalfa snout beetle/ASB populations. Those farms are in the North Bangor/Malone area in Franklin County, at Brier Hill in St. Lawrence County, and in Turin/Lewis County.

The NNYADP is also funding the selective breeding of alfalfa snout beetle-resistant varieties of alfalfa to give farmers a one-two punch for managing ASB.

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October 2, 2014 By karalynn

Got ASB?

CCE Jefferson-Lewis Field Crops Specialist Mike Hunter asks the question: Do you have Alfalfa Snout Beetles on your farm? in the October 2014 issue of the CCE newsletters for Jefferson and Lewis counties.

He notes “Every year we discover new infestations of alfalfa snout beetles on farms.”

The NNYADP funded long-term research that is helping farmers use a cost-effective combination of biocontrol nematodes and ASB-resistant alfalfa varieties to control the highly destructive pest.

Click here to learn more about identifying and managing ASB on your farm.

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