Double Cropping Research in NNY Targets Precise Nitrogen Application, Helps Dairy Farmers Build Forage Inventory

Cornell University research funded by the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) is refining nitrogen management guidelines in support of double cropping. Eight farms in Northern New York participated in on-farm double cropping trials from 2011 to 2013.

Click here for Winter-Forage Small Grains to Boost Feed Supply: Not Just a Cover Crop Anymore! NNYADP research report

Northern New York — Cornell University research has shown that tall fescue silage used in a well-balanced dairy ration can produce as much milk per cow as alfalfa silage. With northern New York cropland suited to the production of the cool-season grass, the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) has funded a 40-variety trial – the most comprehensive tall fescue variety trial in the U.S.

The results of the latest NNYADP tall fescue variety trials evaluated by Cornell Crop and Soil Sciences Professor Jerry H. Cherney – are now available at www.nnyagdev.org.

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NNYADP 2013 Tall Fescue Variety Trials Research Report

Click here for Cornell Fact Sheet on Feeding Alfalfa-Grass to Dairy Cows

 

Please see the following link to the Associated Press article that references the Juneberry nursery at the Cornell Willsboro Research Farm in NNY at Willsboro, NY. The nursery is being established with funding from the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program which receives its funding from the New York State Legislature.

Please let us note that the project leader, botanist Dr. Michael Burgess, is based at SUNY-Plattsburgh. Jim Octerski with CCE Ontario County is a project collaborator.

This news item was posted by AP among its Sunday May 4, 2014 releases and is being picked up by media across the U.S.

Click here for the first NNYADP Juneberry research report and for more info.

 

Cornell University researchers conducting the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP)-funded 2013 corn silage hybrid trials are calling producers’ attention to digestibility data.

 

“Most agronomists and animal nutritionists now believe that stover fiber digestibility is one of the most important hybrid characteristics affecting silage quality. Furthermore, some animal nutritionists believe that starch concentrations are no longer adequate in assessing corn silage hybrids for quality but rather starch digestibility of the grain is far more important,” says lead researcher William J. Cox, a Cornell University Crop and Soil Sciences professor.

 

In 2013, Cox and Cornell University Crop and Soil Sciences professor Jerry Cherney collaborated with two NNY farmers to evaluate 37 hybrids in St. Lawrence County at the Greenwood Dairy Farm in Madrid and 39 hybrids in Jefferson County at Robbins Farms in Sackets Harbor.

 

Click here to read more on the NNYADP 2013 Corn Silage Trial Results

Click here to find the NNYADP 2013 Corn Silage Hybrids Trials research report