Specialists
The NWNY Team Specialists work together with Cornell faculty and extension educators statewide to address the issues that impact the dairy, livestock and field crops industry. Our Specialists have varying areas of expertise but work as a team to provide educational programs and information to commercial producers and agri-business professionals in our regions.
Libby Eiholzer
Bilingual Dairy
Areas of Interest: Employee Management, On-farm Training and Meeting Facilitation, Document Translation
Nancy Glazier
Small Farms & Livestock
Areas of Interest: Grazing, Production, Management, and Marketing to Enhance the Viability of Family Farms
John Hanchar
Farm Business Management
Areas of Interest: Economic Analysis, Farm Financial Management Education, Family Business Transition
Ali Nafchi
Precision Ag
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Joan Sinclair Petzen
Farm Business Management
Areas of Interest: Financial Analysis, Taxes, Business Succession Planning, Managing & Motivating Employees
Jodi Putman
Field Crops
Areas of Interest: Agronomy, Forage Quality, Nutrient Management and Soil Health & Fertility, Industrial Hemp
Margaret Quaassdorff
Dairy Management Specialist
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Mike Stanyard
Team Leader, Field Crops
Areas of Interest: Crop Production & Storage, Insect, Disease & Weed Management.
Dairy
Livestock
Grazing
Forages
Grains
Upcoming Events
*NEW* Automated Milking System (AMS) Management Discussion Group - Mount Morris, NY
November 14, 2019
5:30pm - 8:00pm
Mount Morris, NY
Milk Quality Management in AMS systems will be our first topic, with future discussion group topics to include: lameness and cow comfort, milk production, AMS daily task efficiency, and AMS maintenance. New York Labor Roadshow III
November 18 - November 22, 2019
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Major changes are coming for farm employment laws in New York. The Ag Workforce Development Council is organizing Labor Roadshow III to help farms learn about the changes and adapt their businesses for success.Cow Comfort Program- Freestall
December 2, 2019
9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Avon, NY
The Cow Comfort Workshops are an educational program for farmers, employees and agriservice professionals who work directly with dairy cows. The workshops will cover economics of improving cow comfort, stall design and management, stocking density, heat abatement and effects on production. Announcements
Preventing Sexual Harassment on Farms
If you're wondering how to get your farm business in compliance with NYS Sexual Harassment Regulations, you've come to the right place. The 2018 New York State budget included new regulations addressing sexual harassment in the workplace that became effective on October 9, 2018 for all New York employers, including agricultural employers. All employers are required to have a sexual harassment prevention policy and to provide annual, interactive sexual harassment prevention training for all employees. Check out the resources developed by Cornell Ag Workforce Development, including step-by-step instructions and farm-friendly training videos.
RMA Announces Additional One-time Changes to Prevented Planting Provisions
June 29, 2019
RMA Announces Additional One-time Changes to Prevented Planting Provisions
for 2019 Crop Year
for 2019 Crop Year
In response to delayed and prevented planting resulting from above average rainfall and wetness, the USDA Risk Management Agency has made a one-time change to the 2019 crop year prevented planting rules that effectively allows silage corn, if planted as a cover crop following local agricultural expert guidelines, to be acceptable as a post-prevented planting cover crop. Under this one-time rule change, producers are allowed to produce this crop while retaining their prevented planting payment. This change couples with previously announced one-time changes to the prevented planting rules - including expanded acceptable uses for post-prevented planting cover crops and a change in the cover crop haying and grazing start date rule - serve to help those struggling to meet their forage needs due to the weather.
Read the full article from the New York Crop Insurance Education Program.
The USDA-RMA states that "For crop insurance purposes, a cover crop is a crop generally recognized by agricultural experts as agronomically sound for the area for erosion control or other purposes related to conservation or soil improvement." PRO-DAIRY specialists Joe Lawrence and Karl Czymmek and Dr. Quirine Ketterings, Professor and Director of Cornell Nutrient Management Spear Program have released a letter stating "Corn on Prevented Planting acres meets these objectives."
Read the full article from the New York Crop Insurance Education Program.
The USDA-RMA states that "For crop insurance purposes, a cover crop is a crop generally recognized by agricultural experts as agronomically sound for the area for erosion control or other purposes related to conservation or soil improvement." PRO-DAIRY specialists Joe Lawrence and Karl Czymmek and Dr. Quirine Ketterings, Professor and Director of Cornell Nutrient Management Spear Program have released a letter stating "Corn on Prevented Planting acres meets these objectives."