September 2020
Avenues for Marketing Organic Grain in the Mid-Atlantic Webinar
Join Avenues for Marketing Organic Grain in the Mid-Atlantic, an open question and answer webinar featuring a panel of farmers and field experts who will discuss organic grain production, market opportunities, and the future of organic agriculture.
Find out more »Positioning Your Livestock Business for Financial Success: A Financial Management Workshop for Livestock Producers
Positioning Your Livestock Business for Financial Success: A Financial Management Workshop for Livestock Producers September 30; October 7, 14, 21 and 28; November 4 and 18, 2020 (Wednesday evenings) A Series of Seven Webinars, 7:00 - 9:00 PM The cost of this workshop series is $40 per farm. Register Now. How do you feel, financially, about your livestock business? What information would help you feel more comfortable with the decisions you make? CAAHP CCE Educators Dayton Maxwell and Steve Hadcock…
Find out more »October 2020
Topics for Cut Flower Growers: Considerations for Post-Harvest Storage (Online Meeting)
Register: https://tinyurl.com/TopicsCutFlowerGrowers Registration is required. The link to join the Zoom meeting will be provided in your confirmation email after registration If you have a disability and require special accommodations for this webinar, please contact Lindsey Christianson at ldc74@cornell.edu, or 518-429-8608 before September 28, 2020. Yen-Hua Chen, a PhD student in Dr. Bill Miller’s lab at Cornell University, has been researching the effects of how bacteria in the water during the handling and storage of cut lilies affects the post-harvest life…
Find out more »Tour of Philmont Community Bakery and Hawthorne Valley Bakery, (Online)
Register online: https://tinyurl.com/OnlineBakeryTour. The link to join the Zoom meeting will be provided in your confirmation email after registration. For registration assistance, call (518)765-3518 or email cce-caahp@cornell.edu. Please register by noon October 6, 2020. Get a close look at the local grain economy with a recorded video tour of Philmont Community Bakery and Hawthorne Valley. They grow and mill a portion of their own grain and bake for their communities. Grain farmers and farmers will learn about local grain markets and…
Find out more »Make Your Business Bloom: Financial Management for Cut Flowers in 2021 (Online Meeting)
Register online: https://tinyurl.com/CutFlowerBusiness2021 Registration is required. If you have a disability and require special accommodations for this webinar, please contact Lindsey Christianson at ldc74@cornell.edu, or 518-429-8608 by October 12, 2020. Hosted by Lindsey Christianson, Stephen Hadcock, and Dayton Maxwell. This webinar is geared toward established cut flower growers. We will be updating details about this event on the CAAHP website (https://tinyurl.com/CAAHP-Blog) with a more specific outline of this presentation.
Find out more »Low Input Lawn Alternatives: Getting Started – Year 1 (Online Meeting)
Register: https://tinyurl.com/LowInputLawnAlternatives Registration is required. If you have a disability and require special accommodations for this webinar, please contact Lindsey Christianson at ldc74@cornell.edu, or 518-429-8608 by October 14, 2020. Hosted by Joellen Lampman (NYS IPM) and Lindsey Christianson (CCE CAAHP). In the fall of 2019, Joellen and Lindsey started preparing an alternative lawn demonstration area at the Albany County CCE office in Voorheesville. We will discuss what an “alternative lawn” is, how we chose our seed mixes (a variety of…
Find out more »Fall Round Up for Livestock Producers (Online)
To register online: https://tinyurl.com/FallRoundUp2020. The link to the Zoom meeting will be sent to the email address you provide in your confirmation email. If you need assistance registering, please call (518)765-3518 or email cce-caahp@cornell.edu. The registration deadline is October 28, 2020. Please join Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators Ashley Pierce, Aaron Gabriel, and Dayton Maxwell, who are hosting Fall Round Up for Livestock Producers, 2020, presented by the Capital Area Agriculture & Horticulture Progam and Cornell Cooperative Extension Albany County. This…
Find out more »January 2021
Keystone Farm Show
This is a farm show for farmers. We have more agricultural exhibitors than any farm show on the East Coast. Each year it draws approximately 12,000 farmers from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and New York.
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