Crop Soil eNews:
A free newsletter available from this web site. It is a continuation of 34 years hardcopy of this newsletter. The newsletter is focused on recommendations, research, and management for dairy and field crop in the Northeast in the continually changing economic and weather conditions farms successfully operate under. To subscribe: tfk1@cornell.edu
Customized Training and Education
For You, Your Staff, Your Customers
Available for your audience are dynamic presentations based on replicated research within real farm experiences from over 34 years of Extension work. These seminars have been given at a wide range of venues such as Cornell Nutrition Conference; World Dairy Expo, Pennsylvania Forage Conference, Canadian Certified Crop Advisors Conference, Manitoba Forage Conference and to numerous groups of farmers and sales representatives from Indiana to Maine
All aspects of the soil/crop/dairy system are available for presentations.
Subjects include but not limited to:
Winter Triticale; for quality dairy forage; high yielding straw production; part of comprehensive double crop opportunity for less than ideally drained Northern soils.
Wide Swath Haylage: all aspects of Mr. Kilcer’s research that revolutionized how haylage is made for dairy cows.
Innovations in Conservation Tillage: the use of aerators for primary tillage and seedings; aerators to conserve manure N; deep zone tillage to increase yield potential;
Brown Mid-Rib Sorghum Sudan: for double crop rotations; as alternative to corn silage
Whole Farm Approach to Dairy in the Northeast: a systematic look at management of soils, crop choices, storage, and feeding of dairy cows; how to optimize each part of the system for your farm, your soils, and your resources.
High Forage Diets for Profit & Nutrient Management: The Northeast’s competitive advantage is forages. How to harvest, store and feed diets greater than 65% forage while maintaining high milk production and components to put your farm in a world competitive position
Growing Dairy Nutrition: comprehensive look at the steps critical to high production and profit through high forage diets.
Optimizing Manure in Rotated Crop Systems: achieving the most profit from nutrients in you manure in a complete dairy system
