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The Manager March 2025: Back to basics
(Progressive Dairy, 2025-03)
The March 2025 issue of The Manager, published by Progressive Dairy, features the Conservation, agronomy and efficiency benefit the whole farm.
The best show around… is all about manure?!
Workman, Kirsten (Progressive Dairy, 2025-03)
In mid-July 2024, a team of extension staff, farmers, manure applicators and agency staff from New York and Vermont partnered with Annex Media and the North American Manure Expo (NAME) Board to bring NAME to central New York. After more than a year of planning, the event held at Patterson Farms in Auburn, N.Y. on July 17 and 18 was the realization of many hours of planning, coordination, and plain old hard work. And what a two days it was!
Seedcorn maggot (Delia platura) adult spring emergence in New York state
Yi-Luo Cho, Chloe; Olmstead, Dan; Hunter, Mike; Poveda, Katja (Progressive Dairy, 2025-03)
For decades, neonicotinoid-coated seeds have been used to manage soil-dwelling insect pests in field crops. However, recently passed legislation in New York will ban the sale of neonicotinoid-coated corn, soybean, and wheat seeds beginning on January 1, 2029, unless a waiver is issued by the N.Y. Department of Environmental Conservation. As a result, the management options available to growers for soil-dwelling insect pests will change. Therefore, alternative management strategies will be necessary for future integrated pest management plans.
Corn silage performance: What we can manage
Lawrence, Joe; Kerwin, Allison; Chase, Larry (Progressive Dairy, 2025-03)
Sometimes diving deeper into a topic simply serves as a reminder to focus on the basics. The findings of a recent project largely align with this lesson.
Corn silage yield is subject to many of the same factors as any other grain crop, including growing environment (soil characteristics and weather), soil fertility, pest management, plant genetics, and more.
The nutritional value of the silage is affected by many of these same factors, with a growing body of evidence that growing environment is a leading factor for fiber digestibility, a key nutritive metric.
Soil health and corn silage performance: Comparing grain and dairy field systems
Lawrence, Joe; Workman, Kirsten (Progressive Dairy, 2025-03)
Soil health is a key focus of corn growers who are working towards sustainability goals and safeguarding their operation against increasingly challenging growing conditions. Understanding the contributing factors that lead to resilient cropping systems in the Northeast is important for farmers to meet those goals. With funding support from the New York Corn Growers Association Corn Research and Education Program, soil health data was collected from the Cornell PRO-DAIRY’s NY Corn Silage Hybrid Evaluation Program in 2023.
The annual hybrid evaluation program offers the opportunity to compare the same hybrids in different growing environments. Measuring key soil health parameters at each location with the Cornell Assessment of Soil Health (CASH) test offered additional insight into the role of soil health in the overall performance of the crop grown at each location.