New York State Assemblyman Billy Jones, a member of the NYS Assembly Agriculture Committee, and a steadfast advocate for New York agriculture and for funding for the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) stopped by the NNYADP table at the Rural Resource Fair today in the Well of the Legislative Office Building in Albany. He was welcomed by NNYADP Coordinator Michelle Ledoux, left, and Mellissa Spence with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Lewis County. The Northern New York region includes Lewis, Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties.
The NNYADP thanks NYS Senate Agriculture Committee Members Senators Rachel May and Angelo Santabarbara for their invitation to attend the 2024 Rural Resource Fair in Albany.
In 2023, the NNYADP funded research by Quirine Ketterings, Ph.D., director of the Cornell Nutrient Management Spear Program, focused on assessing the relationship between whole farm nitrogen balances and whole-farm nitrous oxide emissions to help identify key drivers of the balances and greenhouse gas emissions. Click here to read her report:
The latest results of NNYADP research projects are now posting at on this website under the About: Projects by Year tab or click here: 
Presentations at the NNYADP Research Update Meetings will share the latest data and information as one or both meetings as follows. At both meetings, Cornell University Nutrient Management Spear Program Director Quirine M. Ketterings, Ph.D. will present data from a suite of whole farm sustainability projects, including nutrient mass balance and greenhouse gas emissions footprinting; the value of manure, and the use of satellite imagery to determine crop yield stability zones.
Also at both meetings, Uihlein Maple Research Forest Director Adam Wild will share information on how tapping into other-than-maple tree species for syrup production can increase maple producers and landowners’ economic potential, plus how a warming climate creates new challenges for sugarmakers.
Miner Institute Research Scientist Laura Klaiber will share data from 10 years of edge-of-field drainage on the quality of surface runoff and tile drainage, the environmental and agronomic impacts of systematic tile drainage in corn and grass fields and when planting cover crops after corn harvest, and crucial insights into the water quality impacts of widely adopted farming practices.
Presenters at the March 20th NNYADP Research Update Meeting in Lowville will include Dr. Ketterings and Adam Wild as well as Cornell PRO-DAIRY Dairy Forage Systems Specialist Joe Lawrence discussing how producers can gain the most value from corn silage evaluation data from regional on-farm trials and how the evaluation process has change to determine the best fit for any single farm.