This spring, with Northern New York Agricultural Development Program funding, New York’s first Juneberry research nursery will be established at the Cornell University Willsboro Research Farm in Willsboro, NY.

Click here to read more about this exciting new crop project.

Click here for the 2013 Juneberry Nursery Year One Report, NNYADP, March 2014

 

 

 

Cornell Cooperative Extension and Sollecito Landscaping Nursery will hold a Juneberry production workshop as follows:

Juneberries for the Home and Small Farm
Friday, April 11, 2014
9:30 AM – 12 Noon
Sollecito Landscaping Nursery
4094 Howlett Hill Road, Syracuse, NY 13215

This class is a complete, in-depth introduction to juneberry cultivation in Upstate New York, covering site selection, natural history, planting, pest control, and harvesting. Juneberries are primed to become a common high-value crop in the coming years. Landowners can plant and cultivate juneberries as part of their home landscape and they have excellent marketability as a you-pick, wholesale, or direct retail crop. In this class, we will also review other minor edible berries that can be a good fit for a small farm or home landscape.

Fee: $10.00 per person includes the complete workshop and samples of juneberry products. To register, please contact Erin Hull at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County at 315-424-9485 ext. 224. Learn more about the workshop site at www.sollecito.com.

Soybean production in Northern NY has increased significantly in the last 5 years: from approximately 5,000 acres in 2007 to approximately 14,000 acres grown in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties in 2012. To support farmer interest in the crop, the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) funded 2013 soybean variety trials conducted by Cornell University at two sites in the region.

Read more about the 2013 soybean trials conducted at Robbins Farms in Jefferson County and at the Miner Institute in Clinton County.

Click here for the complete 2013 Soybean Variety Trials in NNY Research Report

The Northern New York Agricultural Development Program held two annual meetings earlier this year to provide NNYADP committee and subcommittee members, North Country legislative representatives, Cornell Cooperative Extension educators and others the opportunity to hear updates and success stories on NNYADP research projects. Click here to find an archive of NNYADP research reports.

The Northern New York Agricultural Development Program has posted the results of its latest maple research project focused on increasing sap yields and profitability for regional maple producers.

From 2011-2013, project leaders Northern New York Maple Specialist Michael Farrell, director of the Cornell Uihlein Maple Research Forest at Lake Placid, NY, and retired Cornell Maple Program Director Brian Chabot evaluated the effectiveness of a relatively inexpensive changeout of equipment to improve sap gain in three Northern New York sugarbushes.

In one 3,000-tap research area at the Parker Family Maple Farm in West Chazy, old spouts and droplines were utilized as a control method in the first-year of the research study. The data analysis showed more than $12,000 in potential profit from unrealized sap yield in that sugarbush area in 2011.

Learn what happened in 2012 with new spouts and droplines in that same sugarbush. . .

Click here for the complete 2013 NNYADP Increasing Sap Yields and Profitability in Maple Sugar Operations Through Optimum Dropline/Spout Management report, figures and tables

Northern New York – The Northern New York Agricultural Development Program has announced 27 farm research projects underway in 2014. The projects serve the diverse interests of the agricultural industry of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties.

Nearly 100 farmers participate as advisory committee members or commodity-focused subcommittee members with the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program.

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