CCE 2021 Forage Congress to Go Virtual

Registration open – closed March 9th

Due to the ongoing uncertainty related to the Coronavirus pandemic, Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Northwest NY Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team has decided to transition the 2021 Forage Congress into a virtual conference scheduled for March 11, 2021.

The conference will be held using Zoom. Pre-Registration is required.
Cost: $25 per person. Pre-registration is now open on the NWNY Team’s website, https://nwnyteam.cce.cornell.edu/.  
Registration closes March 9, 2021.

Topics and Agenda include:

10:00 – 10:30am – The Economic Costs of Loading & Mixing, Jason Karszes, PRO-DAIRY, Cornell University

10:35 – 11:05am – Improving Harvest Management, Joe Lawrence, PRO-DAIRY, Cornell University & Tom Kilcer, Advanced Ag Solutions (recording)

11:10 – 11:40am – Nutritive Value and Yield of Reduced-Lignin Alfalfa Cultivars in Monoculture & Binary Mixtures with Perennial Grass, Dr. Jerry Cherney, Cornell University

11:45 – 12:15pm – Cover Crop Adoption on Dairy Farms, Dr. Virginia Moore, Cornell University

Questions, contact: Brandie Waite at: 585-343-3040 x138

The Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team is a partnership between Cornell University and the Cornell Cooperative Extension Associations serving dairy, livestock, and field crop farm businesses and supporting industries in these nine northwest New York counties: Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne and Wyoming.