CNY Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Team

The Central NY Dairy, Livestock, & Field Crops Program serves Chenango, Fulton, Herkimer, Madison, Montgomery, Otsego, Saratoga and Schoharie Counties to help producers meet their goals and enhance dairy farm profitability to maintain a strong dairy industry in the region.

The Central NY Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Program works with farmers on:

• Forage Quality
• Integrated Crop Management
• Water Quality & Environmental Compatibility with Crops
• Dairy Enterprise Performance & Management
• Dairy Replacement Enterprise
• Dairy Feeds and Feeding
• Dairy Livestock Environments
• Intensive Management Grazing
• Small farm technologies
• Direct Marketing & On-farm Processing
• Organic Dairy Transition
• Crop Insurance Education

Dairy farms dominate the farm landscape, and they account for 2/3 to 3/4 of the farm sales in the region. Abundant natural rainfall and a great tradition of dairy farming makes the Northeast an important dairy-producing area of the country.

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Also provided by the Central New York Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team is assistance from a Livestock Specialist and a Farm Business Management Specialist. All four members of the team are available to help members of the Madison County Agriculture community. Please contact the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County office at 315-684-3001 if you should have questions or would like to reach a member of the team.  You can also find the contact information for each member of the team on the left sidebar on this page.

This program is supported by Cornell University and the Cornell Cooperative Extension Associations of Chenango, Fulton, Herkimer, Madison, Montgomery, Otsego, Saratoga and Schoharie Counties.

Last updated September 5, 2024