Month: August 2013

4 Way Cover Crop Mix – sunflower, buckwheat, cowpeas, sunn hemp This was one of the worst years in the history of US agriculture for honeybee declines. Depressing as that sounds, it was difficult to believe as I stepped out into a summer cover crop field in our Lancaster County research plots. Even a quick…

William Maddison, Facilitator, Wyoming County Dairy Institute , 401 N. Main St., Warsaw, NY 14569 What: Cattle Artificial Insemination When: August 20-21, 2013 Where: CCE Bldg. Warsaw, NY Cost: $200/person Warsaw, NY:  The Wyoming County Dairy Institute (WCDI) in collaboration with the North West  New York Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Team (NWNY Team) and…

King’s AgriSeeds Inc. recently cohosted a soil health field day at Eli Weaver’s Meadow View farm. He’s one of our local dealers, based in Leola, Lancaster County, PA, and devotes several acres to product research. The day was a perfect integrated training opportunity, because it featured Ray Archuleta of the USDA-NRCS speaking on the importance…