Showing posts with label soils. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soils. Show all posts
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Healthy Soils Workshops in Late August
Go to this release from Cooperative Extension https://www.morningagclips.com/healthy-soils-workshops-for-dairy/?utm_content=articles&utm_campaign=NLCampaign&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=newsletteredition&utm_medium=email to get details on the workshops.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Meeting on Soils Set for Jan. 13 in Geneva
New York Certified Organic (NYCO) has scheduled a meeting Jan. 13 in Geneva to talk about soil fertility.
The meeting, at the state Agricultural Experiment Station, begins at 10 a.m. in the Jordan Hall auditorium and features three presentations. They are:
1) Jean Bonhotal, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute, will talk about how to gain soil vitality with compost.
2) Noted New York organic producer Klaas Martens of Penn Yan, will present information on the Soil Rennaissance Initiative, a grassroots movement that is drawing attention nationwide, including from high-ranking U.S. Department of Agriculture officials. The Foundation, Oak Brook, IL, and Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, started the initiative in 2013.
Twenty-five soil health leaders working in production agriculture, industry, academia, research and government identified economics, measurement, research and education as key areas for advancing soil health as the decision-making cornerstone for land use management and sustainable natural resource systems and for meeting the challenge of feeding 9 billion people by the year 2050.
3) Carol MacNeil of the Cornell Vegetable Program of Cornell Cooperative Extension will discuss Cornell’s Soil Health Assessment practices.
The meeting includes a potluck lunch, and a discussion circle for questions and answers and brainstorming.
New York Certified Organic received funding for the meeting from the New York Farm Viability Institute and the New York Agriculture and Markets Crop Insurance Team.
Organic grain and dairy farmers have met at NYCO meetings since 1994 to increase their practical knowledge and expertise. Registration is not required; participants bring a dish to pass for the potluck lunch.
For more details, contact NYCO facilitator Fay Benson with Cornell Cooperative Extension at 607-753-5213, afb3@cornell.edu.
The meeting, at the state Agricultural Experiment Station, begins at 10 a.m. in the Jordan Hall auditorium and features three presentations. They are:
1) Jean Bonhotal, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute, will talk about how to gain soil vitality with compost.
2) Noted New York organic producer Klaas Martens of Penn Yan, will present information on the Soil Rennaissance Initiative, a grassroots movement that is drawing attention nationwide, including from high-ranking U.S. Department of Agriculture officials. The Foundation, Oak Brook, IL, and Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK, started the initiative in 2013.
Twenty-five soil health leaders working in production agriculture, industry, academia, research and government identified economics, measurement, research and education as key areas for advancing soil health as the decision-making cornerstone for land use management and sustainable natural resource systems and for meeting the challenge of feeding 9 billion people by the year 2050.
3) Carol MacNeil of the Cornell Vegetable Program of Cornell Cooperative Extension will discuss Cornell’s Soil Health Assessment practices.
The meeting includes a potluck lunch, and a discussion circle for questions and answers and brainstorming.
New York Certified Organic received funding for the meeting from the New York Farm Viability Institute and the New York Agriculture and Markets Crop Insurance Team.
Organic grain and dairy farmers have met at NYCO meetings since 1994 to increase their practical knowledge and expertise. Registration is not required; participants bring a dish to pass for the potluck lunch.
For more details, contact NYCO facilitator Fay Benson with Cornell Cooperative Extension at 607-753-5213, afb3@cornell.edu.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Former Cayuga County Resident Named Field Crop and Soil Specialist
This comes from Kara Lynn Dunn of the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program:
Kitty O’Neil
has been named the Northern New York as Regional Field Crops and Soils
Specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension. She will be working with
farmers in St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton and Essex counties.
O'Neil, who grew up on a dairy farm in Cayuga County, has a bachelor's degree in animal science from Cornell University, a master’s degree in forages and dairy nutrition from Michigan State and recently earned her doctorate also at Michigan State.
In Michigan, O'Neil helped potato growers improve their production systems and make them more sustainable. She conducted several years of research with those potato growers, examining impacts of tillage, cover crops, manure amendments and crop rotations on soil health and productivity.
“I'm eager to apply my efforts to helping Northern New York growers and farmers adopt practices which will reduce risk and production costs while increasing efficiency and livelihoods. From conversations with farmers and other Extension personnel, I can already see opportunities to work on hayfield and pasture quality, forage planning and inventory estimations and alternative forage production to reduce risks,” O’Neil says.
“Fall 2013 forage inventories may continue to be affected by the 2012 shortages, though I hope that impact is slight. Only time and weather patterns will determine what is in the barn, silo and bunk at the conclusion of 2013, but I'd like to work with producers now to optimize that potential,” she adds.
O'Neil can be reached through your local Cornell Extension office or CCE St. Lawrence County at 379-9192.
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O'Neil, who grew up on a dairy farm in Cayuga County, has a bachelor's degree in animal science from Cornell University, a master’s degree in forages and dairy nutrition from Michigan State and recently earned her doctorate also at Michigan State.
In Michigan, O'Neil helped potato growers improve their production systems and make them more sustainable. She conducted several years of research with those potato growers, examining impacts of tillage, cover crops, manure amendments and crop rotations on soil health and productivity.
“I'm eager to apply my efforts to helping Northern New York growers and farmers adopt practices which will reduce risk and production costs while increasing efficiency and livelihoods. From conversations with farmers and other Extension personnel, I can already see opportunities to work on hayfield and pasture quality, forage planning and inventory estimations and alternative forage production to reduce risks,” O’Neil says.
“Fall 2013 forage inventories may continue to be affected by the 2012 shortages, though I hope that impact is slight. Only time and weather patterns will determine what is in the barn, silo and bunk at the conclusion of 2013, but I'd like to work with producers now to optimize that potential,” she adds.
O'Neil can be reached through your local Cornell Extension office or CCE St. Lawrence County at 379-9192.
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