Press Releases : NY FARM SHOW Helping Farmers Produce More from Their Woodlots- GOT TREES?

News Release
Date: January 3, 2006 Phone: 518-746-2560
Contact Person: Laura McDermott 1-800-548-0881

NY FARM SHOW Helping Farmers Produce More from Their Woodlots- GOT TREES?

The New York Forest Owners Association, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry will present a series of free forestry programs on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday February 23, 24, and 25, 2006 at the New York Farm Show held annually at the State Fairgrounds in Syracuse.

The Farm Show has many exhibits displaying information, equipment, and items of interest to landowners as well as farmers. Landowners who own woodland as part of their property can get information on many subjects that will help them enhance the value of their woodlots for timber, wildlife, and recreation.
Seminars consisting of 11 different subjects during the three day farm show will be held in the DEC Log Cabin next to the Horticulture Building. Subjects will include: Woodlot Management and Enhancement, Timber Sales, Timber Theft, Timber Value, Wild Edible Plants and Mushrooms, Invasive Plants, Woodlot Insect and Disease Problems, Wildlife Management, Sugarbush Management and more. People are free to attend whichever seminar interests them and visit the Farm Show exhibits the rest of the time.

There will also be a joint New York Forest Owners Association, NYS DEC, CCE, and SUNY ESF Forestry Information Booth, I55 in the International Building each day of the Farm Show. Before or after the seminar presentations, people can go to the booth to talk to knowledgeable volunteers from the Forest Owners Association, to a DEC Service Forester, and to Master Forest Owner volunteers who have attended training on forest subjects. Free information (brochures, publications, people, organizations, and sources) will be available at the booth.

People will be able to sign up for further information or free visits to their woodlots, and add their names to a free drawing for a chain saw. The International Building has many forestry related exhibits that will interest landowners. For further information contact John C. Druke, 315 656 2313 or jcdruke@twcny.rr.com.

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