In this follow up webinar, Lindsay will be joined by Jeff Stoltzfus, Food Safety Educator with Penn State Cooperative Extension. They will look at two contrasting farming scenarios and discuss the steps they are taking to comply with customer and FDA requirements and will take questions on GAP Food Safety and FSMA.
The New England State Departments of Agriculture, in cooperation with agricultural organizations across the region, graciously invite you to participate as an exhibitor in the upcoming Harvest New England Agricultural Marketing Conference and Trade Show. Whether you provide a product or service to farmers in New England or have a unique product for a roadside […]
Want to get paid to manage your hayfields for bobolinks and other grassland birds? If you own or manage a hayfield that is 10 acres or more and is habitat for breeding bobolinks, you may be eligible to participate in a workshop organized by University of Connecticut researchers.
Many people do not realize that all apple varieties are reproduced by grafting - they are not grown from seed. For horticultural enthusiasts, one of the most satisfying techniques to master is grafting. Wes Autio will present a hands-on workshop on ‘bench grafting’ and ‘cleft grafting’ of apple trees. Other grafting techniques will also be discussed. Proper tools and sharpening will be included. All participants in the workshop will graft several of their own apples trees to take home.
Author of The Farmer’s Office, Julia Shanks, leads a practical, hands-on QuickBooks workshop. Learn how to set up a suitable chart of accounts, enter transactions, track enterprise-specific data, and generate and interpret farm financial statements.
USDA has continued funding through May 2017 to assist direct marketing farmers and farmers markets join the SNAP program by providing free equipment to qualified farmers and farmers markets. The National Association of Farmers Market Nutrition Programs (NAFMNP) has created MarketLink, an online solution to an expedited application process, nationally negotiated rates for SNAP, debit […]
Poultry School is back for it’s third year! The two-day conference is on March 18 and 19 at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, New York.
The deadline for the APR program SARA grant (Round 3) is Monday, March 20. Funding up to $25,000 may be used to conduct a survey to resolve an APR boundary issue that is of concern to the Department, restore inactive farmland for active commercial agricultural use, or project implementation costs associated with resource restoration for […]