Northern New York Agriculture
By karalynn
Northern New York maple producers:
The Recycling Agricultural Plastics Project (RAPP) at Cornell is now working with NBF Plastics of Auburn, NY, to process deliveries of used maple tubing. Learn how to prepare your materials to participate in recycling your maple plastics into a plastic plywood substitute.
Pool your plastics with other producers to amass at least 8,000 lbs. of recyclable tubing at one site to request pickup.
By karalynn
Read how McKnight’s River Breeze Farm in Waddington, NY and Mapleview Dairy in Madrid, NY have successfully grown triticale as a cover crop and a highly digestible forage for cows.
By karalynn
Funding from the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program is enabling Cornell University researchers to evaluate two methods for enhancing fresh market vegetable production in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties.
One method involves testing for nutrient levels throughout the growing season; the other is fertigation – the delivery of vital nutrients to crops through drip irrigation systems.
Read more:
Foliar and Fertigation Being Evaluated for NNY Vegetable Crops
By karalynn
Northern New York farmers planted nearly 15,000 acres of soybeans in 2012.To help them select soybean seed with the best potential to produce both high quality and high yield under the unique growing conditions of their region, the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) conducts on-farm variety trials.
The NNYADP-funded variety trials provide side-by-side comparison data for germination, yield, moisture, disease resistance, and other production factors under the regional growing conditions.
Trial leader Dr. William J. Cox of Cornell University says he expects the acreage of soybeans grown in Northern New York to increase.
Link to 2012 NNYADP soybean trials research results here
By karalynn
May is the month to look for alfalfa weevils in your fields. Alfalfa weevils are not always a problem, but in some years can reduce forage yield and quality. In most years by the time the population reaches any significant level the alfalfa is ready to harvest and this serves as the management control method without the need to apply an insecticide. However, there are times when the development of the weevil is ahead of the alfalfa growth and insecticide treatments are warranted.
Learn more about scouting for and managing this pest from NNY CCE Field Crops Educator Mike Hunter