May 14th: Marketing NY Farm Products to Bed &Breakfast Innkeepers

Date: Tuesday, May 14^th

Time: 1:30 PM

Location: Critz Farms, Route 13 South, approximately 4.5 miles south of the Village of Cazenovia.

Details: Critz Farms will host the 8^th and final workshop on Marketing NY Farm Products to Bed & Breakfast Innkeepers. This Central New York workshop is designed to bring B&B innkeepers together with farmers with products for sale. The project’s goal is to give innkeepers and farmers a chance to meet, get acquainted, encourage transactions, and, finally, to promote these exchanges in the future in a systematic way.

 Each Bed & Breakfast owner will receive a gift basket that could include jams and jellies, processed meat and grain products, flowers and produce in-season, or any kind of product or information on agritourism or services from New York farms. As part of the basket assembly, farmers and small scale food processors “wholesale” or “gift” products to the project, and are compensated.

Register: Go to : https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/_225; nor contact Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County by calling (315) 684-3001.

This project, which is administered by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County, is made possible through New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets and the Federal State Marketing Improvement Program at USDA.

May 6: How to Use Beef Expected Progeny Differences

Date: Wednesday, May 6th

Time: 1 PM

Location: Drover Hill Farm, 1014 Earlville Road, Earlville, NY

Description: Producers will hear and see, firsthand, how William and Stephanie Lipsey have successfully used Expected Progeny Differences, better known as EPDs – in their Angus herd and produced the kind of functional cattle their customers want. The Lipseys have identified 2 young bulls on their farm with known EPDs. We will examine several farm scenarios – cow/calf, feeder, or backgrounder with different kinds of facilities and markets – to see if either bull could be a potential herd sire.

Register on line at:  https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/_225

Questions: For further information, contact Karen Baase at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County. Email kab21@cornell.edu or  call 315 684-3001.

This program is sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County in cooperation with the NE SARE Beef Project with Penn State University Extension.