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What's New:

Horticulture Programs for Profressionals Calendar '08-'09 A complete listing, plus pesticide certification information.

Cornell Guidelines for Pest Management (Cornell "Recommends") -- now online and searchable!

Stop Deer from Eating Your Profits ...while helping to feed the hungry. Learn how to keep nuisance deer from destroying your crops and assist our Venison Donation program with providing meat for the needy!

Tax Update for Agriculture 2008 What’s New in Federal Legislation. Some of the highlights and benefits to small businesses, farmers, and individuals are provided in this newsletter.

Complete "On Food" Article by Maire Ullrich You may have read parts of this recently published article -- here is the complete, unedited version.

Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County Ag Enrollment Take full advantage of our research-based information!

Soil Analysis Service

Orange County’s 14,000 acres of muck soil, know locally as "black dirt" is famous for its vegetable crops, particularly onions, lettuce, radishes, sweet corn, and pumpkins. There are 70 black dirt onion farms producing more than half of the state’s onions on approximately 5,200 acres. There are over two dozen commercial vegetable farms on upland soils including numerous organic farms.

Maire Ullrich

Maire Ullrich, Resource Educator, Vegetable Crops mru2@cornell.edu

- Commercial Vegetable Crop Production
- Migrant Labor Issues
- Farmer’s Markets
- FarmNet Issues
- Organic Vegetable Crop Production
- Food Gleaning

 

November 10, 2008