NNY Maple Producers Searching for Trees, Collaborating with Landowners

New Online Evaluation Tool Helps Maple Tree Owners Evaluate Best Use

Lake Placid, NY -- Northern NY Maple Specialist Mike Farrell says his goal with the “Get Involved with Maple” campaign is to enhance the maple-producing capacity of New York’s six northernmost counties to achieve the full, environmentally-friendly economic potential of the region as a syrup maker. That potential, in time, could be more than $9 million per year.


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NNY Maple Producers

U.S. Apple Association Plans Capitol Hill Day for March 25

Apple industry leaders from throughout the U.S. plan to meet with members of Congress and their staffs to seek support for important apple-related issues, including agriculture labor reform, fair food safety laws, Farm Bill programs and increasing apple exports.

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U.S. Apple Capitol Hill Day

Waste to Energy-Cargill's 2nd Idaho Dairy Farm Digester to Produce Enough Electricity for Approximately 1,100 Homes

An Idaho dairy farm is illustrating how environmental innovation can simultaneously help solve problems as global as climate change and as local as livestock manure.

A Cargill built and operated anaerobic digester on the Bettencourt Dairy B6 Farm is now converting manure from the farm’s 6,000 cows into 1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per month.

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Waste to Energy

Nine New Organic Production Guides Now Available

Commissioner Announces Guides for Farmers who are Transitioning to Organic

New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker today announced the availability of nine new organic production guides for farmers.  The new guides provide information for farmers on how to produce certified organic apples, blueberries, grapes, lettuce, potatoes, spinach, strawberries and cole crops, including cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and Brussels sprouts.  There is also a new guide to help control dairy cattle related pests using organic IPM methods.

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New Organic Production Guides