Northern New York Agriculture
With funding from the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program, Regional Vegetable Specialist Amy Ivy has produced a four-page fact sheet to help high tunnel tomato growers cope with leaf mold.
This new resource provides tips on prevention and control, information on the most resistant and least resistant varieties, and photos of the early symptoms of leaf mold and leaf mold look-alikes.
Click here to go to the Leaf Mold in High Tunnel Tomatoes Fact Sheet.
Cornell Cooperative Extension is sponsoring two regional field discussions for Northern New York horticultural growers: one on July 28 in Willsboro and one on July 29 in Canton. The events are free-but-registration-required evening educational opportunities.
Each program will run from 6pm to 8pm with a picnic supper, farm tour, and discussion of vegetable production projects focused on season extension, inter-row cover crops, reduced zone tillage, crop pests: leek moth and spotted wing drosophila, and more.
The Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) and Cornell University Crop and Soil Sciences and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences departments have released the results of their latest efforts to enhance real-time weather-based precision nitrogen (N) management in New York state’s northernmost counties.
Based in part on 18 years of field studies in Northern New York, the van Es Lab at Cornell University developed the Adapt-N data-driven simulation software to help reduce uncertainty about optimum nitrogen application rates, particularly driven by early-season variable weather conditions.
‘Nitrogen management on corn silage and grain acres can be costly when the nutrient is overapplied without any gain in crop yield. The dynamic recommendations of Adapt-N can reduce overall inputs, cost, and environmental losses,’ says Cornell Crop and Soil Sciences Professor Dr. Harold van Es.
Adapt-N functions in real-time, daily adapting recommendations to current weather conditions. Farmers and crop consultants can receive weather-adjusted updates daily via email or text alert.
In 2013, with an uncharacteristically wet spring, the tool successfully adapted N recommendations to account for early-season N dynamics, and further demonstrated its ability to improve New York State farmers’ profits.
Northern New York – Research conducted on Northern New York farms by Cornell University researchers with funding from the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) is helping farmers enhance their production of forage crops for their dairy cows.
Eight farms in Northern New York participated in on-farm double cropping trials from 2011 to 2013. The research specifically refines nitrogen fertilizer management guidelines for fields that will be used for double cropping – the practice of planting two different crops on the same field in which the second crop is planted after the first has been harvested.
By using the same land to plant two crops that can be fed to dairy cows, farmers can offset previous-year dairy cow forage inventory losses due to drought, excess water, or other causes.
Link to Winter Forage Small Grains to Boost Feed Supply: Not a Cover Crop Anymore research report
Link to profiles on growing 70 acres of triticale as a double crop with corn at Brandy View Farm in Madrid, NY, and a cereal rye trial at BCS Dairy in Peru, NY.
On Wednesday, July 9 from 2pm to 4:30pm, the Cornell Willsboro Research Farm at Willsboro, NY, will hold an open house and tour of the facilities and diverse agricultural research plots. A number of research projects at the farm have been funded by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program.
Research topics featured at the 2014 open house event include:
In 1982 Willsboro farmer and entrepreneur E. Vreeland Baker donated his 352-acre farm to Cornell University for agricultural research and demonstration. The farm is managed by the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station.
The July 9 event is free and open to the public. Info