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Jefferson County First Cut Timing Reports
To help farmers plan first-cut harvest timing, each Wednesday through the month of May 2013, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Northern New York will post scissor cut sampling updates at...
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Farmers benefit from CCE CNY ‘Spring First Cutting Monitoring Program’
“Alfalfa height has been found to be an efficient and reliable indicator for spring’s first cutting,” reported Cornell Cooperative Extension Regional Field Crop Specialist Kevin Ganoe. Ganoe, who is...
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1st Cutting Quality Summary – May 14, 2013
Kevin H. Ganoe, Regional Field Crop Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Central New York Dairy & Field Crops Team The summary for the second week of our first cutting monitoring can be found...
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Delaware County Scissors Cut Report
Dale Dewing, Watershed Team Leader, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County, Watershed Agricultural Program On your mark, Get set, MOW!! It’s been a great week for hay growth. Grass jumped an...
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Weekly 1st Cut Alfalfa Height Report for Jefferson and Lewis Counties – May...
Forage Quality Monitoring results are now posted for Jefferson & Lewis Counties for May 15, 2013. Click here to see the report.
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1st Cutting Quality Summary – May 22, 2013
Kevin H. Ganoe, Regional Field Crop Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Central New York Dairy & Field Crops Team The third of our first cutting forage quality summaries is available here....
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Delaware County Scissors Cut Report – May 24, 2013
Dale Dewing, Watershed Team Leader, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County, Watershed Agricultural Program Hay Harvest is in full swing! Lots of excellent quality forage was put in last...
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1st Cutting Quality Summary – May 28 2013
Kevin H. Ganoe, Regional Field Crop Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Central New York Dairy & Field Crops Team The summary for the fourth and final week of our first cutting monitoring...
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Delaware County Scissors Cut Report – May 31, 2013
Dale Dewing, Watershed Team Leader, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County, Watershed Agricultural Program Hay, Hay, Hay! Rain has frustrated hay harvest this week, but a number of fields did...
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Managing Forage Stands under Water
Prepared by Glenn Friesen, MAFRI Forage Specialist (BDS), Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Flooding a forage stand limits the amount of oxygen in the soil profile, and since plant roots...
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Delaware County Forage Quality Scissors Cut Results – May 13, 2014
Scissors Cut Results 5/13/2014 – PDF available here: http://goo.gl/4r3zTr
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Delaware County Forage Quality Scissors Cut Results – May 27, 2014
Going, Going, … Gone?? Warm temperatures this week pushed hay NDF values up almost 13 points, 1.8 points/day on average. Grasses gained just over 8 inches and legumes about 4.5 inches. We also...
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Late Planting and Forage Inventories
From Jeff Miller, Ag Program Leader of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Oneida County If you have ground that you worked up to plant corn but didn’t yet…. You may want to consider brown mid rib...
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Double Cropping Research Helps Northern NY Dairy Farmers
PRESS RELEASE: June 25, 2014 Contact: Cornell University: Dr. Quirine M. Ketterings, 607-255-3061 NNYADP Publicist Kara Lynn Dunn, 315-465-7578, karalynn@gisco.net Link – if your browser does not...
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Abnormal Alfalfa Growth
Jerry Cherney – E.V. Baker Professor of Agriculture, Soil and Crop Sciences Section Alfalfa growth is generally stunted this spring, while grass is moving along, probably heading about normally, but...
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Well Begun is Half Done – Delaware County Scissors Cut Results – May 19, 2016
From Dale Dewing, Field Crop and Nutrient Management Specialist for farms in the New York City Watershed As I write this note, many farms have mown the first fields of the 2016 harvest season. Many...
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NNYADP Dairy Forage Research Evaluating Alfalfa-Grass Combination Options
NNYADP-funded research by Cornell University is evaluating winter-hardy grass-alfalfa crop combinations in support of the dairy industry. In this photo, USDA researchers examine frost-stressed forage...
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PRO-DAIRY Forage Management: Perennial Forage Cutting Height
From Joe Lawrence, Cornell PRO-DAIRY In a recent farm visit, the farmer had just purchased a nice new discbine. On the day I was there, he and the equipment dealer were replacing the shoes on the...
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Late Summer-Planted Forage Option for NNY: Farmer-Driven Program Posts Early...
This photo shows the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program-funded oat forage trial at Canton, NY, on September 16, 2015, 43 days after planting. The forage variety plots were heavily...
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