If you know which specialist or staff member you would like to reach, you can find their contact information 

Nancy Glazier

Small Farms & Livestock Specialist

CCE Genesee County
420 East Main Street
Batavia, NY 14020

phone 585-343-3040
cell 585-315-7746
fax 585-343-1275
email Nancy

John Hanchar

Farm Business Management Specialist

CCE Livingston County
3 Murray Hill Drive
Mt. Morris, NY 14510-1153

phone 585-991-5438
cell 585-233-9249
fax 585-991-5434
email John

Jodi Letham

Field Crops & Soils Specialist

CCE Livingston County
3 Murray Hill Drive
Mount Morris, NY 14510-1153

phone 585-991-5420
cell 585-689-3423
email Jodi

Kaitlyn Lutz, VMD

Bilingual Dairy Management Specialist

CCE Ontario
480 N Main St
Canandaigua, NY 14424

phone 585-394-3977
cell 585-689-3114
email Kaitlyn

Margaret Quaassdorff

Dairy Management Specialist

CCE Genesee County
420 East Main Street
Batavia, NY 14020

cell 585-405-2567
email Margaret

Mike Stanyard

Team Leader and Field Crops & IPM Specialist

CCE Wayne County
1581 Route 88 North
Newark, NY 14513-9739

phone 315-331-8415 x123
cell 585-764-8452
fax 315-331-8411
email Mike

Brandie Waite

Administrative Assistant

CCE Genesee County
420 East Main Street
Batavia, NY 14020-2599

phone 585-343-3040 x138
fax 585-343-1275
email Brandie

Growing Great People: Training Skills for Dairy Farmers

June 29, 2022
Clifton Springs, NY

Become an Effective On-the-Job Trainer!  This hands-on workshop is for all farm managers, supervisors and employees who are involved with training other employees. More than one participant per farm is encouraged to attend. Learn together in both English and Spanish. 

Growing Great People: Training Skills for Dairy Farmers

June 30, 2022
Pavilion, NY

Become an Effective On-the-Job Trainer!  This hands-on workshop is for all farm managers, supervisors and employees who are involved with training other employees. More than one participant per farm is encouraged to attend. Learn together in both English and Spanish. 

Calving Workshop: Ontario County

July 1, 2022
Stanley, NY

Registration Now Open!  To pull or not to pull? That is (one of) the questions dairy farm personnel have while working in the maternity area on a farm.

This workshop will teach best calving management practices to minimize stillbirth rates and improve calf and cow health during and directly after the calving process.

State Agriculture Commissioner lifts ban on poultry shows, auctions in NYS

On June 3, New York State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball announced the end of the bans on live poultry shows, exhibitions, auctions, sales, meets, and swaps in New York State. The decision to lift the bans comes as cases decrease nationwide, including in New York state, which has not had a detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in nearly two months.

The NWNY Team Blog

Our goal for this blog is to share with farmers and allied industry professionals, technical and applicable resources regarding all aspects of dairy farming, livestock and small farms, field crops and soils, and topics related to farm business management and precision agriculture.