Ag Alternatives - Beef Cow-Calf Production
Joan Sinclair Petzen, Farm Business Management
Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops
July 5, 2013
The first summarizes the costs and returns of a cow-calf enterprise using a feeding program of hay and pasture, and the second summarizes the costs and returns of a cow-calf enterprise using a feeding program of silage and pasture. There are several different ways of starting a commercial beef cow-calf herd:
- buying heifers of either weaning or breeding age
- purchasing an entire cow herd
- purchasing individual cows from established herds.
From Penn State Extension's Ag Alternatives Fact Sheets: Beef Cow - Calf Production
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Upcoming Events
Weed Resistance Management Demonstration and Plot Tour
July 23, 2019
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Waterloo, NY
Come join us on July 23 in Seneca County at Quinten Good's farm for a demonstration and walking tour of 16 different pre- and post-emergence treatments in soybean and 12 different treatments and combinations in corn. - Tall waterhemp and marestail are two weeds that are resistant to glyphosate and ALS herbicide modes of action in the WNY and Finger Lakes regions.
- Each year the number of acres with resistant weed populations expands.
- For herbicides to be an effective tool in weed management, we have to know what chemistries & application timings are most effective against these resistant weeds.
Income and Real Property Tax Primer-A Learning Circle for Women Non-Operating Land Owners of Ag Land
July 24, 2019
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Portageville, NY
For many of us taxes can be a mystery, let's have a conversation with the experts about the tax considerations agricultural landowners need to think about. Pasture Walk with the Finger Lakes Graziers-Cancelled!
July 29, 2019
12:45 - 4 pm
The Finger Lakes Graziers pasture walk has been cancelled due to some scheduling conflicts. Announcements
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."
New Guidance for Mortality Disposal Issued
NYS Department of Ag and Markets has posted guidelines on disposal of livestock carcasses, in response to reports that some rendering companies have halted pickups from farms.https://nwnyteam.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=761&crumb=dairy|1