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ADAPT-N
2012-2014 Adapt-N in NNY Report: Implementing the Adapt-N Took in Northern New York: Reducing Cost, Mitigating Losses, and Adapting to Climate Change
2012-2014 Adapt-N Report Tables

ARTICLE: Award-Winning Adapt-N Tool has Northern New York Roots
Lewis County farmer reports $20,000 in N cost reduction, credits tool developed with NNYADP help

Adapt-N Training Manual 1st Edition – also see Update Notes below
Adapt-N online training videos and presentations, April 2014
Adapt-N Update in What’s Cropping Up, June 2014
Adapt-N Update Notes: February 2014
Adapt-N Update Notes, December 2013

Adapt-N Increased Grower Profits and Decreased Nitrogen Inputs in 2012 Strip Trials, NNYADP 2011-12
Adapt-N Increased Grower Profits and Decreased Nitrogen Inputs in 2011 Strip Trials, NNYADP 2011-12
Adapt-N Proves Economic and Environmental Benefits in Two Years of Strip-Trial Testing in NY and Iowa, NNYADP 2011-12 (includes 84 trials/56 in NY)

How much nitrogen does your field really need? Farm and Dairy June 2013

Implementing the Adapt-N Tool in NNY: Reducing Cost, Mitigating Losses, Adapting to Climate Change, NNYADP, 2013 – text, Tables & Photos

New tool helps farmers nip nitrogen losses, Cornell Chronicle May 2013

Resource: Cornell Adapt-N Program

COVER CROPS
Carbon and Nitrogen Uptake of Cereal Cover Crops Following Corn Silage, NNYADP 2013, What’s Cropping Up

Can Manure Replace the Need for Starter N Fertilizer? (#67) NNYADP, 2012
Can Manure Replace the Need for Starter N Fertilizer? NNYADP, 2010

ISNT Implementation on NNY Farms and Protected N Sources to Meet N Needs for Corn Where N is Needed, NNYADP, 2009

How Soil Type & Drainage Affect Corn Nitrogen Response NNYADP Fact Sheet, 2005

DOUBLE CROPPING
Research Reports
Winter-Forage Small Grains to Boost Forage Supply: Not Just a Cover Crop Anymore! NNYADP, 2014, Photos

Profiles:
Crop Advisor’s Collaboration with NMSP Promotes Double-Cropping in NNY: Eric Bever, Champlain Valley Agronomics, BCS Dairy, 2014

NNY Crop Advisor and NMSP Initiate Double Crop Field Research, Peter Barney, St. Lawrence County, Brandy-View Farm, 2013

NITROGEN TESTING
Illinois Soil Nitrogen Test (ISNT) for Corn (#35)
Late Season Corn Stalk Nitrate Test (#31)
Pre-Sidedress Nitrate Test (PSNT) for Corn (#3)

Nitrogen Basics: The Nitrogen Cycle (#2)

Nitrogen Credits from Manure (#4)
Nitrogen Fixation (#39)
Nitrogen Guidelines for Corn (#35)
Nitrogen Leaching Index (#11)

Nitrogen Needs for First-Year Corn (#21)

Nitrogen Removal by Brown Midrib Sorghum Sudangrass, NNYADP, 2006

Reducing P & N Loss with Aerway Incorporation of Manure

Soybean Nitrogen Credits (#30)

NITROGEN MANAGEMENT
2019: Evaluation of Variability in Nitrogen Uptake Efficiency across Corn Silage Hybrids in NNY
Research leads to lower N rates on corn for Jefferson County farmer

ZONE MANAGEMENT
2019: Yield-Stability Management Zones for Higher Yields and Better Nitrogen Allocation

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Cornell Nutrient Management Spear Program

PRESS RELEASE: March 2, 2012

Winter Dairy Management Group-Housed Calf Conferences in NNY March 21 and 22

How does a dairy calf’s pre-weaning daily rate of weight gain impact her milking performance as an adult? How can you improve your barn’s ventilation to protect calves’ lungs? How has raising their calves in groups and free-access milk-feeding systems benefitted Northern New York dairy farmers?

“If you feed calves right early, you can add 1,700 lbs of milk in their first lactation,” says Cornell University Dairy Nutrition Extension Professor Dr. Larry Chase.

Chase and a full line up of educators, veterinarians and farmers using group housing systems will share their experiences and knowledge at the 2012 Winter Dairy Management Conferences in Carthage and Chazy, NY, on March 21 and 22 respectively. The 10:30am to 3pm sessions, organized by Cornell Cooperative Extension associations of Northern New York, will be held at the Carthage Elks Club on March 21 and at Miner Institute in Chazy on Thursday, March 22.

Cornell PRO-DAIRY Dairy Housing and Waste Management Engineer Curt Gooch will present advances in draft-free ventilating for barns to protect calves’ young lungs.

Gooch says, “The success in group-housed dairy animals has always hinged on a viable ventilation system and it is even more important with calves which are susceptible to the drafts common in the winter months in Northern New York.”

In Carthage, veterinarian Dr. Mark Thomas of Countryside Veterinary Clinic, Lowville, NY, will talk about how group feeding and housing of calves mimics nature.

In Chazy, veterinarian Dr. Bob Ceglowski of Rupert Veterinary Clinic, Rupert, VT, will share how group feeding and housing moves calf raising closer to “nature’s way.”

In Carthage, Mary Kelly of Kelly Farms, Renssalaer Falls, NY, will share how converting to group housing has benefitted her dairy business.

In Chazy, Mark and Jenny Cary of Woody Hill Farm in Salem, NY, will offer their farm as a case study for finding success with group calf systems.

In Chazy, Animal Science Extension Specialist John Conway of Cornell’s PRO-DAIRY Program will compare mob feeders, robotic autofeeders and farm-fabricated self-feeders, and Kim Morrill, Ph.D., the new Cornell Cooperative Extension Dairy Specialist for St. Lawrence, Franklin and Clinton counties, will talk about how baby calf rate of gain affects lifetime performance in the milking herd.

A ready-made “warm box” will be on display at both events.

The $30 registration fee includes lunch and how-to materials from the sold-out December 1, 2011 Dairy Calf Group Housing Symposium in Syracuse.

Register for the Carthage conference by March 16 with Ron Kuck, CCE Jefferson County, 315-788-8450. Register for the Chazy conference by March 17 with Kim Morrill, CCE St. Lawrence County, 315-379-9192. # # #

 

In the 1960s, Dr. Robert F. Lucey of Cornell University had a vision of Northern New York as an agricultural production powerhouse, and he set out to found a Northern New York agricultural research program that is today known as the NNYADP Small Grants Program.

In 1961, Dr. Lucey prompted the New York State Legislature to appropriate funds to Cornell University to establish a research station at the State University of New York Agricultural and Technical College at Canton. Dr. Lucey established strong working relationships with that college and with the William H. Miner Agricultural Institute in Chazy, NY, and the Cornell Willsboro Research Farm in Essex County. He connected researchers, students, farmers and Extension educators for the task of evaluating the Northern New York factors that affect dairy farming and field crops.

The Northern New York Agricultural Development Program received its initial formal name in 1982. Dr. Lucey had established a program advisory committee of the region’s farmers, agricultural leaders and educators. Today, the Program remains farmer-driven and funds projects determined to be the most needed for NNY farmers.

Here are some comments on Dr. Lucey’s accomplishment:
Bob Lucey was a man who could see fifty years ahead of his time. He had the foresight to see the opportunities and the research needed to move agriculture in Northern New York forward into the 21st century — Jefferson County beef farmer and NNYADP committeeman Don Holman

The goal behind Bob Lucey’s program was to find the right crops to fit the Northern New York climate, soils and harsh winters. Bob’s work was instrumental in improving plant genetics and crop selection to make farming viable in Northern New York — dairyman and NNYADP committee member Bob Andrews.

Dr. Lucey helped make this region a focus area for Cornell by opening a revenue stream in support of regional research — Town of Lowville Supervisor and NNYADP committeman Arleigh Rice.

NNYADP committee member Frances Moore worked with Dr. Lucey on variety trials on her Franklin County farm. She says, I think he would be pleased to see the continuing support between the college and the local farmers.

St. Lawrence County Extension Field Crops Educator Peter Barney says Dr. Lucey earned farmers’ respect with his practical approach, and by being a good listener and a concerned researcher who spent a lot of time in the North Country regularly checking his test plots.

Dr. Robert F. Lucey died May 7, 2004, leaving behind eight children, 11 grandchildren and a legacy of vision and success for NNY agriculture.