Kara Lynn Dunn
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Systems and Economic Data for High Tunnel Melon Production
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Research results by Cornell University Regional Vegetable Specialist Elisabeth Hodgdon, Ph.D., and Regional Agriculture Business Specialist Lindsey Pashow provide growers with data and insight into the production and economic factors that influence the opportunity to profitably produce cantaloupe in a high tunnel environment. Increasing consumer interest in local foods availability and the proliferation of high…
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Growers Credit NY Berry Project for Successful Start-Up
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If you’re thinking about starting a farm enterprise focused on growing berries, Elaine and Karl Guppy will tell you to go to back to school at Cornell University first. “We have taken almost every production and business management workshop offered by the Cornell University New York Berry Project,” Elaine says. “The learning opportunities are packed…
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Workbook Guides Grape Growers Toward Sustainability
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Grape growers are using a new action-planning tool – the New York Guide to Sustainable Viticulture Practices Grower Self-Assessment Workbook – to enhance economically-sound production with minimal environmental impacts. The eight-section, 134-question workbook facilitates evaluation of soil and nutrient management; weed, disease, and insect control; and the vineyard business’s economic needs. Getting the workbook into…
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Where’s the Meat? Ask Northeast Livestock Processing Service
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The Northeast Livestock Processing Service Company (NELPSC) connects producers and processors for made-to-order meat products — and increased sales for both. Livestock farmers formed NELPSC in 2006 to address the challenge of obtaining quality processing for livestock and poultry. Today, the farmer-owned company works with 95 livestock farmers and 8 processors and those numbers are…
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