CCE of Chautauqua County - Agriculture Program

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Enrollment

Access to Cornell Cooperative Extension Agriculture Program services are granted upon enrollment.  All enrollments start with a $20 base fee (email mailings) or a $25 base fee (printed mailings), which includes the "Agricultural News" and other general mailings.  We strongly recommend that you also enroll in the different commodity areas that apply to you in order to receive specific mailings for events, seminars, workshops, and meetings.

Dairy   $20.00

Livestock   $20.00

Grapes- In Contract Region  $45.00

Grapes- Out of Contract Region   $100.00

Small Berry $45

Base Fee for ALL Agricultural Producers $25 (hard copy)

Base Fee for ALL Agricultural Producers $20 (email)

Commercial Vegetable $150 (enroll directly in regional program)

To enroll, please contact Emily Runge, Program Administrative Assistant, at (716) 664-9502 x 209.

Learning About Agriculture is Fun!

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Agriculture Program Staff and Contact Information

Frank W. Bratt Agricultural Center

3542 Turner Road,

Jamestown, NY 14701

Lisa Kempisty, Community Educator - Dairy/Livestock

Office:  (716) 664-9502, Ext. 203

Cell:  (716) 499-0503

ljk4@cornell.edu

Virginia Carlberg, Community Educator - Farm Business Management

Office:  (716) 664-9502, Ext. 202

Cell:  (716) 969-3525

vec22@cornell.edu

Emily Runge, Administrative Assistant

Office:  (716) 664-9502, Ext. 209

ear6@cornell.edu

Want to Start a Farm? Resources for Beginning Farmers

Agricultural News

Field Crop Memo

Dairy Market Watch

Dairy and Livestock

Farm Business Management

Ginny Carlberg, Community Educator

In today’s difficult economic environment, the viability of our local agricultural businesses is a major concern.  The Farm Business Management Program helps farms increase their profitability by organizing workshops, classes, and literature on financial management, agricultural markets and economics, decision-making, and marketing.  The program spans all agricultural industries, and seeks to foster farm-to-farm and farm-to-public communication.

The Farm Business Management program also puts together the Dairy Market Watch, which is a monthly update on current dairy industry and market trends.  Past issues of the Dairy Market Watch are available for download on this site.

There are approximately 30,000 acres of vineyard in the Lake Erie region of New York and Pennsylvania grown on 840 farms, making this the largest grape growing region outside of California.

Of this acreage, 98.5% consists of Labrusca (American Grape) varieties such as 'Concord' and 'Niagara' which are used for juice, jam and other fresh or fermented products. The Lake Erie Regional Grape Program consists of Extension Educators and research faculty/staff from Cornell University and Penn State University devoted to projects aimed at increasing yields, product quality, diversity and improvement of cultivars, efficiency of production, profitability and adoption of environmentally sound cultural and pest management strategies.  Visit the LERGP website at:  http://lergp.cce.cornell.edu.

Chautauqua County Agriculture Facts

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