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Northern New York – On-farm research trials funded by the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program shows some NNY farms have achieved notably high corn yields. These gains prompted farmers to want to know if the Cornell University nitrogen fertilizer and manure application recommendations derived from corn yield potential calculations need to be revised.

Twelve Northern New York farms teamed with Cornell University researchers, Cornell Cooperative Extension field crop specialists and regional crop consultants to investigate whether higher crop productivity means more nitrogen needs to be supplied to replace that taken up by the corn or are new corn varieties simply able to make better use of the nitrogen already in the soil?

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A Soil Health Workshop will be held on Friday, August 22nd, 1-5pm, at the Logue Farms, 8 Smith Road, Chateaugay, NY. Agenda will focus on cover crops and tillage with short educational sessions, a farmer discussion panel and tillage equipment demonstrations.

Attendance is free, but please register with Chastity Miller at 518-483-4061 x110, cmiller@fcswcd.org in advance.

The field day is sponsored by the Franklin County and NYS Soil and Water Conservation offices, Franklin and Clinton County NRCS offices, Franklin County Farm Services Agency, and Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Click here to read “Soil Health Explained” by CCE NNY Field Crops and Soils Specialist Kitty O’Neil.

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.

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Northern New York – Common, emerging and re-emerging crop diseases are a threat to two of the economically-important crops in Northern New York, so a team of Cornell University faculty and Cornell Cooperative Extension educators with Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) funding are now in the second year of a survey of corn and soybean fields in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties.

This proactive disease assessment will help protect the health and profitability of corn and soybean production in Northern New York. The two crops combined are estimated to have a more than $106 million economic impact in the region.

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2013 / Year 1 NNYADP-funded NNY Corn & Soybean Disease Survey Report

 

The Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) has released early recommendations from a Cornell University team evaluating a parasite control strategy for barber pole worm, a major cause of death in sheep and goats.

Haemonchus contortus – the stomach parasite commonly known as barber pole worm – is a major cause of death in small livestock and has become increasingly resistant to traditional anthelmintic – deworming – treatments.

“Many North Country sheep and goat farmers already report barber pole parasite resistance to multiple conventional deworming medications,” says Betsy Hodge, livestock educator with Cornell Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County.

With funding from the farmer-driven NNYADP, Drs. Michael L. Thonney and tatiana Stanton with the Cornell Sheep and Goat Program and Dr. Dwight Bowman and Janice Liotta of the Cornell School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology worked with North Country livestock producers and Hodge to test the use of copper oxide wire particles, or COWP, as a deworming method for sheep and goats.

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