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Beginning Bloom of Shrubs and Trees

(Clinton, NY) Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County Master Gardener Mike Mahanna will be out in Clinton on Wednesday, March 24th giving a class on Beginning Bloom of Shrubs and Trees at the Kirkland Town Library at 6:30 p.m. Find out what shrubs and trees will be best for your landscape. The class will be [...]

Hamilton College Arboretum Association Announces Free March Workshop

Spring Landscape Maintenance: What Can I Do and How Will It Look
(Clinton, NY) The Hamilton College Arboretum Association will present a free workshop in March on the Hamilton campus. Spring Landscape Maintenance: What Can I Do and How Will It Look? will be the topic on Saturday, March 20, from 10 a.m. to noon in [...]

Cornell Offers Spring Gardening Classes

(Oriskany, NY) Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County Master Gardeners presents Spring Gardening classes on Thursday, March 18, 2010. Classes will be held at the Farm & Home Center, 121 Second Street, Oriskany, NY 13424.
Power point presentations will be featured. Come and learn about Native Wildflowers, instructed by Bruce Mero. Linda Sturtevant will speak on [...]

Central New York Biomass Crop Study Results to be Presented at Local Public Meetings

(New Hartford, NY) The recently completed Central New York Biomass Crop Study offers new insight on the potential for growing energy in the region. Information from this study is vital both to farmers interested in producing biomass crops and energy users considering biomass as an energy source.
“We were asked to look at whether this area [...]

Statement on ABC News Nightline story on animal abuse within the dairy industry

Submitted by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County
On January 26, 2010, ABC News Nightline aired an investigative report that focused on animal abuse within the dairy industry. The report was based primarily upon an undercover video produced by a group called Mercy for Animals, which is outspoken with regard to its pursuit of a pro-vegan [...]

Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) Certification Workshop Planned

(Sangerfield, NY) Cooperative Extension of Oneida County is co-sponsoring a workshop with Whites Farm Supply Inc. and Oneida County Farm Bureau for area farmers. The workshop will include discussions of some important topics including: potato leaf hopper resistant alfalfa varieties, feeding strategies for improved milk components, new herbicides, sprayer set-up and calibration and farm vehicle [...]

Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) Certification

(Oriskany, NY) CCE of Oneida County is hosting a question and answer session with Betsy Bihn of Cornell on the topic of good agricultural practice certification. This is a certification that many local vegetable and small fruit producers will have to obtain to sell their products at local grocery stores. This Q/A session will be [...]

NYS Hops Institute Launched

First Course: Hops 101 Scheduled for March 20 in Utica

(Feb. 3, 2010) Assemblyman Bill Magee, the Northeast Hops Alliance (NeHA), the NYS Brewers Association, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County and Madison County’s Agricultural Economic Development Program are pleased to announce New York State’s first Hops Institute. The Institute’s first hops course, Hops 101: an [...]

Time to Start Planning your Vegetable Gardens for 2010

(Oriskany, NY) Christmas is barely over and gardeners are starting to plan next year’s crop. Of course the TV commercials advertising tillers instead of snow blowers and the seed catalogs replacing Christmas cards only adds fuel to the frustrated gardener’s fire.
While the equipment can be a back saver, selecting the correct seeds should be what [...]

Herb and Flower Festival Scheduled for June

Attracting Birds, Garden Habitat Focus of Festival
(Whitestown, NY) The Master Gardeners of Cornell Cooperative Extension, Oneida County have announced that the Herb and Flower Festival will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 26th in the Parker Scripture Botanical Gardens at 121 Second Street, Oriskany, NY. Attracting birds to your garden [...]

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