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State Farm Bureau limits goals for ‘18 session
AGRICULTURE: Organization’s requests are meant to salve ongoing wounds from wage hikes and research drought
By JIM KRENCIK
jkrencik@batavianews.com
ALBANY — A $300-per-work-
er tax credit thrown into last
year’s state budget was a drop in
the bucket for farms.
Doubling it in this year’s state
budget is a priority that the New
York Farm Bureau placed at the
head of a set of legislative prior-
ities.
New York Farm Bureau Pres-
ident David Fisher and Director
of Public Policy Jeff Williams
limited their 2018 state hopes to
restoring funding that has been
zeroed out or has long been lack-
ing.
The Farm Bureau’s mem-
bership has asked for funding
to be increased for staffing and
research at Cornell’s College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences;
for follow-through on a $10 mil-
lion pledge for increasing school
lunch nutrition; and improv-
ing diagnostic tools and other
investments into fighting tick-
borne illnesses.
“The state can’t do anything
about milk prices, or any other
commodity,” Williams told re-
porters Wednesday. “But it can
reduce the cost of doing busi-
ness ... and all that research is
critically important.”
Genesee County Farm Bu-
reau President Christian Yunk-
er told The Daily News that the
agribusiness community has
low expectations from the state
this year.
“There’s a lot of line items
that we’re depending on and we
know there’s going to be cuts,”
Yunker said. “We have to keep
telling (legislators) how import-
ant these programs are.”
Fisher said Gov. Andrew Cuo-
mo’s budget could be lauded for
increasing funding used for land
conservation and water quality.
Yet it calls for no funding for re-
search sought by those harvest-
ing berries, maple and honey.
The Farm Bureau hopes to
grow those specialized products
and larger crops by a request to
have $2 million invested in seed
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funding to aid the refilling of po-
sitions at Cornell and $3 million
in capital funding for research
and cooperative extension po-
sitions.
At the farm level, Yunker said
having locally-sourced research
is essential.
“We need that for our long-
term viability,” he said. “Having
a top-notch agricultural univer-
sity, they do a lot for ag indus-
try worldwide and a lot of these
fruits and vegetables grown here
rely critically on their research.”
“(With reduced investment)
we’re relying on research on
things that aren’t specific to us
and the state. Every location
has its own challenges — pests,
weeds, whatever the challenge
is. And we’ve been losing posi-
tions that we’ve relied heavily on
for 100 years.”
Fisher, a dairy farmer from St.
Lawrence County, said research
has produced real savings for
farms by showing methods that
reduce input costs; and will as-
sist as crops and animals are im-
pacted by a changing climate.
“We have the second-most di-
versity in agriculture because we
had Cornell,” Fisher said. “Bra-
zil, Argentina and China are out-
spending us on research dollars
2-to-1, and in New York we rec-
ognized the need for research.”
Despite the hopes for the
Albany session, Farm Bureau
members have larger issues to
face — a worldwide glut keeping
milk prices far below viability
and potential loss of export mar-
kets due to trade protectionism
were mentioned Wednesday.
But the state’s largest agricul-
tural lobbying group still stings
from losses in a fight to constrain
minimum wage increases.
Fisher said being in an in-
dustry that is a “price taker, not
a price setter” has made the up-
ward thrust of wage levels a con-
stant issue.
Yunker said nearly all local
farm workers are already paid
more than minimum wage, with
a contracted market for drivers
and other on-farm and adjacent
industries driving labor costs
higher and higher.
Getting $300, $600 or even the
$1,200 credit the New York Farm
Bureau hopes can be in place by
2021 is “peanuts” compared to
real costs, Yunker said. But every
bit helps.
“We’re just trying to find ways
(to operate) and it’s difficult in
New York,” Yunker said. “We’re
working in national marketplac-
es and we don’t set the markets.
We have higher utilities, wages
and taxes. When (we) compete
in the global market and even
with other states ... they can do
it cheaper.”
According to the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture’s Economic
Research Service, New York’s
agricultural production value
had declined to just over $5 bil-
lion, down more than $1 billion
from 2014 to 2016. Net farm in-
come in the same period fell to
$568 million, a third of what it
was in 2013, Fisher said.
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Photographer’s shots bring farmers’ stories to life

By Sally Santora
For The LCN
Living in Livingston Coun-
ty, it’s likely that you drive past
a farmer’s field every day on
your way to work or school or
even to the store to buy milk.
Even so, many people have
little or no knowledge of what
a typical day on the farm is re-
ally like for the families here
who own and work the 225,000
acres of Livingston County
farmland.
Kevin Keenan Photogra-
phy has changed that. During
the planting and harvesting
seasons Keenan can be found
out in the fields or in the trac-
tor cab capturing the everyday
work of farmers from sun up to
sundown.
“Kevin is tapped into some-
thing special. He is telling our
story (farmers) and I can’t
thank him enough for it,” said
Amos Smith of Lawnel Farms
in York.
Keenan’s photographs
and videos are very popular
with the public. His Facebook
page has 4,000 followers and
in January he was a guest pre-
senter at Big Springs Museum
where the attendance was
so great Keenan had to give
two separate presentations. A
collection of his agricultural
photographs is on exhibit at
the museum from now until
March. The Big Springs Muse-
um is located at 3095 Main St.
in Caledonia.
“Kevin’s photos and videos
give the public a snapshot of
life on the farm. It gives anyone
from anywhere an up close
and personal view of what it
feels like to actually be there,”
said Leslie Hamilton of Triple
H Farms in Geneseo.
Since the age of about 12
Keenan was infatuated with
farms. He worked weekends
and summers at WC Farms
(Paul Stein and Sons, Inc.) in
Caledonia and loved it. Go-
ing through high school he
planned to make farming his
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Geneseo’s Leg Up Stables named ‘Farm of the Year’
By BEN BEAGLE
ben@livingstonnews.com
The annual “Farm of the
Year” Award presented by
the Livingston County Area
Chamber of Commerce has, in
recent years, been presented
to dairy farms large or small,
farms that specialize in crops
and farms which have been in
families for generations.
So it was a bit of a surprise to
Kimberly Sanford when Laura
Lane, the Chamber’s executive
director, visited Leg Up Stables
in Geneseo on Feb. 2 with bou-
quets of balloons and flowers
and the announcement that
Sanford’s farm was the 2018
honoree.
“But I have no cows,” San-
ford said with a laugh.
But what she did offer, said
Lane, was “a fantastic oppor-
tunity to highlight a different
segment of our agricultural
community.”
Esteemed company
Leg Up Stables, a 300-acre
farm off Avon Road just out-
side the village of Geneseo, is
the first horse farm to receive
the Farm of the Year Award. A
formal presentation will take
place March 23 during the
annual Farmer Neighbor Eve-
ning, a dinner presented by
the Chamber, the Livingston
County Farm Bureau and Cor-
nell Cooperative Extension of
Livingston County.
The dinner at the Genesee
River Restaurant and Recep-
tion Center, 134 North Main
St., Mount Morris, is an annu-
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al celebration that recognizes
agriculture’s position as the
leading industry in Living-
ston County – and one of the
top-performing agricultur-
al communities in New York
state.
The dinner brings togeth-
er farmers and community
members as a means to foster
a better understanding of the
role played locally by agricul-
ture. Nearly 400 people regu-
larly attend the event.
The Farm of the Year recip-
ient is considered based on its
level of community activity,
having a proactive stance to-
ward agriculture, land stew-
Ben Beagle/Livingston County News
ardship, good business prac-
Leg Up Stables owners Kimberly and Jerry Sanford pose for a
tices and integrity and being
photo with one of their stallions shortly after being presented
an advocate for agribusiness in
with the Livingston County Chamber of Commerce’s 2018 Farm of
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Cows and companion animals
Perry Vet Clinic named Wyoming County’s 2018 agri-business of the year
By JESSICA DILLON
JDillon@BataviaNews.com
PERRY — It took “roughly 100
years of blood sweat and tears”
to turn a small, rural veterinary
clinic into an internationally
known enterprise and one of
the largest large-animal practic-
es in the United States, said Per-
ry Vet’s three managing part-
ners as they sat inside the belly
of the beast — an inner confer-
ence room at the Perry clinic —
during their 6 a.m. meeting on
Thursday.
They’re used to rising early —
they have to congregate in Per-
ry, sometimes foregoing their
chance to drink a morning cup
of coffee, to discuss pressing
matters at hand before the main
clinics, and its satellites, open
at 7. And then, with papers filed
and matters documented, they
have to fan out — to Livonia,
Yorkshire and Batavia — to be-
gin their day’s work. Sometimes
that means examining hun-
dreds of cows for pregnancy,
performing multiple surgeries
back-to-back and undoubtedly
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encountering some surprising
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the meantime — finding them-
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can be, working with animals
small and large, well and sick,
friendly and not, taking all mea-
sures necessary to strengthen
their ties with the region’s agri-
cultural community.
And their efforts have paid off
in multitudes — not only have
they ensured the health and
safety of thousands of livestock
over their decades-long tenure,
but they’ve provided jobs for
more than 100 local residents
(making them one of the larg-
est employers in the county),
kept man’s best friend healthy
and, most recently, have been
named by the Wyoming Coun-
ty Chamber of Commerce and
Tourism as the 2018 agri-busi-
ness of the year.
“It’s an honor to be named,
to be in that position, especially
this year,” said Dr. Steve Stod-
dard as he explained that the ag-
riculture industry — especially
in the dairy business — has seen
a rough few years.
After three consecutive years
of tough margins, economists
warned that still in 2018, milk
production remains too strong
— there’s too much dairy prod-
uct in inventory and, according
the basic principles of supply
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Thursday, March
and demand, distributors will
be forced to keep prices low if
they hope to sell.
Even the grain markets have
been difficult to maneuver,
Stoddard said, and so to be
recognized for supporting and
strengthening the industry
means quite a lot.
“We like to see ourselves as
partners with our clients to help
build their businesses,” he said.
“It shows maybe that they (the
clients) respect that position.
There seems to be some rec-
ognition that we’re trying to be
helpful and supportive of the
agricultural industry.”
And that’s of particular im-
portance in Wyoming County
— where there are more cows
than people and the agriculture
industry reigns supreme.
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“I feel like agriculture drives
this community,” said Dr.
Ted Wolf. “I don’t just feel it, I
know it. It’s an honor for us to
be partnered with that. Albeit
there are challenging times we
go through, but we are an agri-
cultural community...and it’s
a community that works really
hard.”
Dr. Peter Hecht agreed, not-
ing the importance he and the
other veterinarians place on es-
tablishing and developing rela-
tionships with the clients.
“Our clients and their fam-
ilies — they become very close
friends to us,” Hecht said.
And in a county like Wyo-
ming, with farmers to boot,
making friends with the clients
hasn’t been difficult, the men
said, because they’re “very
hardworking, they’re sincere
and honest, friendly — just en-
joyable to work with.”
And that goes both ways —
Perry Vet began in 1919 under
a different name and on a dif-
ferent street, in a garage no less,
and for nearly a century has
been growing and developing
to meet the needs of the com-
munity, not because its been
blessed with an abundance of
wealth, but because the clients
trust the vets, and keep coming
back for more.
“I think in our practice we
also work really hard to give
good service, and that’s one of
the things I’m really proud of,”
Stoddard said.
So integral is that hard work
to their day-to-day operations
that it’s been made part of the
mission statement, Hecht ex-
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Pep the cat is one of the many
animals treated at the Perry
Veterinary Clinic.
plained. Every day the staff
works to enhance the quality
of lives of each of their clients,
and from the kennel worker
all the way up to the highest in
command, it’s a sincere effort to
help people in their endeavors,
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they said.
With a long and colorful
history, Perry Vet is not done
growing yet — new services are
being added and the number
of veterinarians continues to
expand. Surgical cases bene-
fit from improved anesthetics
and monitoring equipment,
pre-surgical blood testing, IV
fluid support and pain manage-
ment programs, and new medi-
cations are being developed. In
addition, the clinic has added
an endoscope and ultrasound
machines to improve compan-
ion and farm animal services.
The veterinarians regularly
attend continuing education
programs and do self-study
to stay abreast of these rapid
changes, said practice manag-
er Tracy Smith, who explained
that the Perry Vet Clinic is
not only actively engaged in
the community and a strong
supporter of the Leadership
Wyoming program and the
Wyoming County Business Ed-
ucation Council, but dedicated dent and CEO Scott Gardner.
to assisting students through
externship and preceptorship
“We are very pleased to give
the agri-business award to Per-
programs. ry Vet Clinic for its continued
“The tagline on the brand: growth and service to Wyoming
knowledge is health,” Smith County and the larger region-
said. “They — whether it be the al community,” Gardner said.
doctors, the technicians, the “This business has continued to
staff — do a lot of continuing flourish since its earliest found-
education to maintain progres- ing almost 100 hundred years
sive practice. I think (they) have ago. Perry Vet Clinic is an indus-
a continued investment in the try leader serving both the large
practice year after year.” and small animal populations.
All of those things have con- Even though they have con-
tinued to grow, they have nev-
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er lost the personal touch and
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compassion for the clients and
customers that they serve.”
According to Gardner, the
honor is awarded annually to
a Wyoming County business
that exemplifies the following:
“Contributions to the eco-
nomic vitality and quality of
life of Wyoming County, cap-
ital investments, business
expansions, job growth, com-
munity involvement” and
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en their industry sector.”
“I do think that we really are
proud of our staff,” Wolf said.
“Our staff does a great job and
we have a great team — not
just veterinarians but our staff,
our management. We’re really
surrounded by excellent peo-
ple here.”
Perry Veterinary Clinic,
PLLC, located at 3180 Route
246, will receive the award at
the Pride of Agriculture Din-
ner on Saturday, March 3.
The event also features the
presentation of the Pride of
Agriculture - Good Neighbor
Award and the Friend of Ag-
riculture awards, which are
joint awards given by Cornell
Cooperative Extension of Wy-
oming County and the Wyo-
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ming County Farm Bureau.
The awards are always kept
a secret until the night of the
dinner.
The Pride of Wyoming
County Agriculture Dinner is
open to the public and is a sell-
out event. Tickets are $25 per
person and can be purchased
through the Wyoming Coun-
ty Chamber. Please call 786-
0307 for more information or
to make a reservation. You
can also reserve tickets online
at www.wycochamber.org
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Dealing with the daily stress from farming
By BOB CONFER
Column for the Tractor Factor
It is widely-known that mil-
itary veterans have among the
highest suicide rates in our
country. Sadly, in any given year,
38 of every 100,000 veterans take
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What about our farmers?
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tables are taking their lives in
unprecedented numbers. Just a
few years ago their rate of suicide
was 85 per every 100,000 farm-
ty, chamber officials said. The
event, presented by Cole Build-
ing Solutions LLC, is 6 p.m. to 10
p.m. and will take place at the
North Java Fire Hall.
It will feature the award to the
Perry clinic as well as the annu-
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Last year’s event was another
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Mancuso to leave Genesee CCE in June
AGRICULTURE: Cornell Cooperative Extension director has adapted to challenges over 12-year tenure leading local organization
By JIM KRENCIK
jkrencik@batavianews.com
BATAVIA — Bev Mancuso
beamed as members of her staff
explained their 2018 goals with
passion and care, before reveal-
ing her own path is undefined.
Mancuso, who has served as
the Cornell
Cooperative
Extension
of Genesee
County’s ex-
ecutive di-
rector since
2005, said that
she will retire
Mancuso from the or-
ganization on
June 7.
“It’s time to do something
different, I don’t know yet (what
that is) ... I’m waiting for the uni-
verse to bring next step,” Man-
cuso said. “I think I’ve done ev-
erything I can do here.”
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sion office for over 12 years, and
served three years as associate
director under Martin Culik. She
also aided the Wyoming County
CCE and Orleans County CCE at
times, including a run as interim
director in Warsaw.
At her post, Mancuso has
been a forceful backer of her
agency and a realist about the
challenge it faces. State and local
funding for the Extension has
dwindled in recent years, forc-
ing annual cuts past her comfort
level. It’s still fun, she said, but
less than it was at the start.
She said her own job has be-
come harder and more com-
plex. As her team shrunk, the
mission became less flexible
and more specialized — but it
succeeded.
On Tuesday, Peggy Marone
reported that Leadership Gen-
esee had to set a hard cap at 35
for its 2018 class and turn away
others. 4-H participation is
growing and widening in focus.
Master Gardener volunteers are
numerous. Use of technology
in both youth and agribusiness
is growing, with a precision ag-
riculture specialist approved
for the Genesee CCE to assist
the Extension’s dairy and field
crops teams.
“To listen to everyone talking
so passionately about what they
do was (energizing),” Mancuso
said. “For these guys to stay so
focused and committed ... I give
them a lot of credit.”
Mancuso said she’s cynical
about the agency’s support
from Albany as a $4 billion defi-
cit looms. “I’m afraid for the
future,” she said at one point
when the budget came up.
Mancuso said her staff, now
at half of the 21 positions she
inherited, has had to special-
ize to meet the CCE’s goals. No
one has volunteered to succeed
her and there’s no associate di-
rector. She hopes given an ex-
tended notice will help make it a
smooth transition.
“Theocratically, (Cornell)
should be involved and work
with community to identify
what’s working and what’s not
working and what they need for
that role,” she said.
Mancuso previously worked
in administrative roles for Gen-
esee County and St. Jerome
Hospital. She hopes to serve in
health and wellness.
“My background is in health-
care, and that’s where my pas-
sion is, to see it (at the ground
level) rather than from adminis-
tration,” she said.
Mancuso said she’s proud
to have helped established a
shared business network for
Extension offices. That manag-
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Thursday, March
es issues like human resources
and IT that individual offices
couldn’t. Taking on responsi-
bilities like the physical building
that houses the Batavia office al-
lowed her staff to focus on pro-
gramming.
“We’re not here to be a build-
ing, we’re here to do programs
and education,” Mancuso said.
“When I came here, I didn’t
know anything about this place
... until you are in here you don’t
realize it, but we do a lot of pro-
gramming and have a lot of in-
formation that I want to believe
has impacted this county more
positively than even I know
(now).”
The Cornell Cooperative Ex-
tension has been a “very cool”
place to work, with an “amaz-
ing” staff, Mancuso said. She
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Farm. Meanwhile Keenan was beautiful sunsets that I saw

Stories
From T4
full time career. Like most
teens, Keenan changed his
mind several times about what
he would make his full time ca-
reer. In high school he joined
the Caledonia Fire Depart-
ment’s Explorer Program and
for a time he planned to be-
come a professional firefight-
er. For a short period of time he
worked as a dispatcher at the
Livingston County E-911 Cen-
ter. But he could not ignore
his passion for farming so he
went back to working at Stein’s
pursuing a bachelor’s degree
in communications at SUNY
from the seat of a tractor and
thought that people might
Geneseo. enjoy seeing these as well if I
He received a camera as a could capture them, and so it
Christmas gift in 2013. Natu- began,” said Keenan.
rally he started taking photos Food is so abundant in
of the things he loves – the America and with huge su-
farm, tractors, combines and permarkets open 24 hours a
sunsets at the end of a really day for your shopping conve-
long day. nience; it’s easy to not even
He is also pretty good at think about where all this food
capturing the beauty of a full comes from.
moon shining brightly over “Farmers and their fami-
the barn and silo. In fact, it is lies work hard to produce the
the beautiful sunsets in Living- highest quality products they
ston County that Keenan says can. The public has very little
inspired him to take photo- knowledge of what it actually
graphs in the first place.
“I started noticing all of the See STORIES T13 PHOTOGRAPH BY KEVIN KEENAN

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takes to get food from a field
to their table. Currently less
than two percent of Ameri-
ca’s population are farm and
ranch families. That means
a vast majority of the popu-
lation no longer personally
knows a farmer, let alone
has ever met one. Most peo-
ple think of large scale farm-
ing today as factory farming.
While in fact nearly 99 per-
cent of farms are operated by
families, individuals, family
partnerships, or family cor-
porations,” said Hamilton.
“It’s not a sexy occupa-
tion. We had rough times as
kids. We are a fourth gener-
ation farm; we’ve been here
over 75 years. What I like see-
ing in Kevin’s photographs
is generations of families in
one picture still working side
by side,” Smith said. Lawnel
Farms is named after Smith’s
great grandfather whose
name was Nelson and his
grandfather Lawrence, who
still comes to work in the of-
fice every day.
Keenan’s agricultural ex-
perience served him well as
he finished college and took
a position with Growmark
FS as the Western New York
Precision Farm Special-
ist. He had the best of both
worlds working with farmers
by day and capturing beau-
tiful farm photographs af-
ter work and on weekends.
What Keenan believed to
be a nice little niche hob-
by for him soon became a
thriving part time business.
The local farmers loved his
photographs of their farms
and agricultural organiza-
tions realized the marketing
potential Keenan’s photo-
Tractor Factor 1, 2018 • 13
Spring
Thursday, March
graphs could have on their flying a drone just about ev- out in the fields, side by side ers enjoy it because it helps
agenda.
“I was honored to do the
ery day; I fly them in my full
time job to scout and map
the farmers, capturing beau-
tiful photographs and pilot-
share and document their
story, which they are often
video for the Livingston fields, and then I get home ing his drone over the acres too busy to do themselves.
County Farm of the Year last and switch gears to chasing of perfectly straight lines.
And I think my work has rein-
year, Triple H Farms in Gen- equipment with the drone Farmers like Amos Smith and
eseo. I am also really excited for my personal business,” he Leslie Hamilton are happy forced that Livingston Coun-
to be working on videos for said. when they see Keenan com- ty is one of the top ag pro-
Marquart Farms and their Once the growing season ing with his cameras. ducing counties in the state,”
New York Chips,” Keenan arrives Keenan will be back “I think that the farm- Keenan said.
said.
In 2016 Keenan took his
talents into a new area –
drone photography. With a
sophisticated camera on-
board the unmanned aerial
vehicle, UAV, Keenan cap-
tures farm life from a per-
spective never seen before.
His videos are hugely popu-
lar on his Facebook page and
last year his videos of Triple
H Farms, the 2017 Livingston
County Farm of the Year,
helped promote agriculture
locally.
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bond that is created between
farm families working to-
gether across multiple gen-
erations for a common goal,”
Hamilton commented.
Keenan has produced 20
agricultural videos to date
but says the demand is in-
creasing. He looks forward
to honing his drone photog-
raphy and producing more
videos in the future.
“The drone provides such
a unique perspective so it is
popular for many different
uses. In the summer I am
14 • Spring 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018 Tractor Factor

Alliance plants interseeding interest

By JIM KRENCIK
jkrencik@batavianews.com
BATAVIA — Jeff Toussaint would have no problem
talking up his agricultural operation.
“We shouldn’t be afraid to get up and brag, but
you’ll learn more from my failures,” Toussaint told
a Western New York Soil Health Alliance meeting in
December.
Behind him were the results of various field trials
Toussaint has brought to his Ridgeway farm.
In August, he had even allowed an Alliance-hosted
program to dig into his corn, with analysts standing
waist-deep to identify and show off the inner work-
ings of his fields. With winter snows now coating that
same land, Toussaint wanted to share his successes
and mistakes in ensuring his soil was staying healthy
all year.
It goes beyond the idea of cover crops, late-sea-
son planting that keep soil working before corn starts
growing and after its harvested. Toussaint’s interest
was in inter-seeding methods that put those crops
into active fields.
With few farms able to offer expertise and uncer-
tainty over what would be a large investment, it was
trial-and-error time.
“We started out simple, with a hitch on a row-crop
planter,” Toussaint said. “Seeds were getting caught
in the whirls of the corn.”
Then came a 12-row seeder built at Branton Farms
in Stafford. It blew seeds directly to the ground, but
the process struggled in dry conditions. Toussaint
said he needed a more consistent means to get the
cover crop established.
“I was at a farm show, and saw (a new inter-seed-
er). It was a temptation, but I didn’t feel confident
enough to stick money into something I’m exper-
imenting with,” said Toussaint, who described
mounting an air seeder to his regular seeder. “Basi-
cally, a Johnny Cash Cadillac.”
Farms around western New York are experiment-
ing with new methods to solve old problems like nu-
trients lost on bare ground.
Merrimac Farms in Geneseo has 3,500 acres and
400 cows to work with, and Brad Macauley said the
farm has been trying as many options as possible.
There were three inter-seeding units tested, from
high-tech machinery to his younger daughter hand
dropping seeds into flooded fields. Radish, rye clo-
ver, tridicale, tillage radishes, soybeans, rapeseeds,
alfalfa and legumes all were tried in one area or an-
other.

Stables
From T6
Livingston County.
“You may think you’re flying
under the radar, but go around
the county and you’re embed-
ded in everything,” Lane said.
A bit of everything
Leg Up Stables is home to
SUNY Geneseo’s equestrian
team. It supports area po-
ny clubs, Rotary Clubs, and
hosts horse shows, jumper
shows, rallies, clinics and oth-
er events. Sanford and her
husband Jerry sell, train and
raise horses and provide riding
lessons for children through
adults.
“We want to make sure you
the stables’ horses.
A family farm
Sanford likened Leg Up
Stables to a family farm. The
equestrian team members
– typically 40 to 50 each year
from beginner to advanced
riders – ride in two lessons per
week; “hack,” or exercise the
horse with taking a lesson two
more times per week; and per-
form weekly barn chores and
horsemanship tasks.
“It’s not just like an athlete
learning to play soccer,” San-
ford said. “They’re also learn-
ing the husbandry, learning
how to be horsemen.”
The Sanfords also provide
a kind of “home-away-from-
home-parents,” Sanford said,
helping with a variety of non-
horse related concerns from
automobiles to relationships.
“The girls are all bright
young women and they share
our passion for horses,” San-
ford said.
Sanford has been SUNY
Geneseo’s equestrian coach
since it was added as an in-
tercollegiate sport in 1996. It
began with 12 members and
rented space at the facility – an
old training farm with lots of
barns and a small indoor are-
na. As the team became more
successful and its member-
ship grew the college rented
more and more space.
When the team became a
varsity sport, the Sanford’s
bought Leg Up Stables. They
have been the owners for the
past 16 years or so and added a
larger arena that hosts numer-
ous shows and events each
year.
“I love watching the horses
evolve and grow, but I also love
seeing the students evolve and
grow,” said Sanford, who has
written many recommenda-
tions for team members apply-
ing for veterinarian school.
The farm’s name, Leg Up
Stables, reflects that interest.
“When it came time to name
the farm all the ‘hills’ and
‘dales’ had been taken. There’s
not a lot of oaks around here
and the land is kind of flat,” she
said with one of her frequent
laughs. “I like the idea that it’s
about giving a person a leg up.
It’s a physical thing for getting
on the horse, but now it seems
like such a normal part of what
we’re doing.”
Sanford has been working
with horses for nearly 40 years.
She went to SUNY Delhi where
she earned an associate’s de-
gree and started a career as
a veterinary technician. She
worked in Perry and Livonia
and taught on the side. She is a
member of the Genesee Valley
Pony club, the Genesee Valley
Hunt and the Genesee Valley
Riding and Drive Club.
Sanford traces her passion
for horses back to a childhood.
“It’s my DNA,” she said of
her love of horses. “The first
thing I remember is chasing
horses down the street. We’d
play horses; we wanted to be
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Josie, who lives on the fami-
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golf and softball. She is also
active in 4-H.
Josie, 16, a sophomore at
Dansville Central School,
takes the crown from her sis-
ter, Emma Swyers. Four cous-
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Josie is involved in 4-H
where she has shown pigs and
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member of National Honor
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She has previously been a
Dairy Maid and then a Dairy
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As Dairy Princess, Josie will
make appearances and pres-
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after being crowned. She has
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The Dairy Princess is some-
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16 • Spring 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018
DEC makes seedlings available
By THE LCN STAFF
news@livingstonnews.com
More than 50 species of
trees and shrubs from the state
Department of Environmental
Conservation’s Saratoga Tree
Nursery are now available for
sale to public and private land-
owners and schools.
Spruces, pines, shrub wil-
lows, dogwoods, high bush
cranberry, winged sumac,
white cedar, and wetland
rose are among the 50 species
available from the Saratoga
nursery. The sale provides
low-cost, native tree and shrub
seedlings from New York seed
sources to encourage land-
owners to enhance the state’s
environment for future gener-
ations.
Mixed species packets that
include flowering species that
attract pollinators are also
available. New seedling intro-
ductions program are eastern
redbud, quaking aspen, win-
terberry holly, swamp white
oak, and black hills spruce
transplants.
Small reforestation proj-
ects are popular with private
landowners interested in en-
vironmental improvement. Al-
though the public commonly
thinks of flowers when talking
about pollinators, before be-
coming butterflies and moths,
caterpillars must first feed on
plants, and without enough of
the right plants, these insects
won’t make it to adulthood.
Most of the state nursery’s
seedlings are native, which are
preferred by native caterpil-
lars.
Most songbirds need a di-
et high in protein — like that
found in caterpillars — to suc-
cessfully raise their chicks. A
single clutch needs thousands
of caterpillars before they
fledge. When choosing which
species to plant, keep in mind
that they are not all equal: oaks
support nearly 400 species of
caterpillars in New York, while
the invasive tree of heaven
(Ailanthus) doesn’t support
any. By planting trees that host
native caterpillars, people can
help provide the food sources
vital to butterflies, moths and
birds.
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Thursday, March

Beneath the snow,

fields hide secrets
Remains of 2017 corn crop going strong
By JIM KRENCIK
jkrencik@batavianews.com
BATAVIA — The remains of
the 2017 corn crop stand stiff
in fields where they aren’t al-
ready covered with snow.
No growth would occur
above the ground and in the
freezing temperatures of the
year’s final days.
But growth is possible be-
neath the heavy cover, at
least where the ground al-
lows it. Donn Branton called
it a season for his after-har-
vest cover crops early in De-
cember, but had left a piece
of equipment out in a field,
figuring the temporary loca-
tion was better than attempt-
ing to bring it along a heavi-
ly-salted highway.
“(When we went back for
it) we started picking at the
seeds beneath it ... the roots
were an inch-and-a-half
long,” Branton said.
The ground hadn’t frozen
yet, but rye that was attempt-
ing a late surge will be back in
Alliance board member, said Pennsylvania, said Branton’s
the group is seeking a one- observation wasn’t an out-
year extension to the three- lier. He’s pulled cereal rye
year pilot program they roots in the early stage of the
launched. He hopes that as northeastern growing season
it deepens its ties to the area
that would indicate there’s a
around Batavia, other pro-
lot happening over winter.
grams will be started around
“It was March, just when
the state.
For now, it’s able to pull we’re starting to think about
in agricultural experts and green, and I found roots 43 ROCCO LAURIENZO/DAILY NEWS
inches deep,” Groff said. Snow covered a field in January on Bank Street Road in Batavia.
growers from beyond the two
“That stuff has to grow over
counties.
the winter. It has to be grow-
Steve Groff, a cover crop
researcher and grower from ing under the snow.”
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1,000 bushels of corn per acre? It’s no joke
SKYROCKETING YIELDS: Agronomics consultant says genetic potential is making massive production increases possible
By JIM KRENCIK
jkrencik@batavianews.com
Dr. J. Julian Smith is quick
to launch into a joke or short
story, even in the middle of the
Cornell Cooperative Exten-
sion’s annual Corn Congress.
His presentation to sev-
eral hundred Western New
York growers was littered with
punchlines, but his main mes-
sage — that the corn varieties
grown in the region has the po-
tential to produce 1,000-bushel
per acre yields — was not one of
them.
Smith, the president and
co-founder of New Mexi-
co-based CZO Agronomics,
came of age in an England that
saw its wheat surpass four tons
per acre. Experts said it had the
potential to reach 10 tons per
acre.
With the national corn crop
averaging 175 bushels per acre,
the 60 percent leap Smith saw
in 1970s wheat seems more
achievable. Everything would
have to be perfect — enough
seed planted, the right amount
of rain and sunlight, and active
managements — but American
growers have already realized a
230 percent increase since the
1970s.
“The genetic potential as a
population of crop has the op-
portunity to push in excess of
1,000 bushels per acre,” Smith
said.
The GLOW Region has pro-
duced the state’s top per-acre
results in recent years. In De-
cember, the National Corn
Growers Association named
Dansville’s Henry Everman,
Pavilion’s Ryan, Jason and Gary
Swede, Kendall’s Matt Kludt as
reporting the best yields in their
planting categories.
Everman had the state’s
highest yields, 326.9 bushels
per acre, in the non-irrigated
category; with Kludt winning
the no-till or strip-till, non-ir-
rigated category with a 322.3
bushel per acre area.
Nationally, the best yield
reported by the National Corn
Growers Association was
achieved by the Hula family,
whose lands outside of Rich-
mond, Va. produced acres with
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tests, and contribute to yield son ... post-tassel nitrogen can
gap analysis studies. be good for about 30 bushels
Concepts suggested by per acre.”
Smith are largely about bet- He pointed to phosphorous
ter using available resources. and potassium as important
There’s maybe 10 to 20 percent pieces of a yield-increasing di-
of a yield that a typical farmer et, and less prevalent nutrients
can control, with the quality of as hidden secrets.
corn seed genetics and weather “The high-yielders say
carrying most of the load. they’ve underestimated the
In addition to planting more secondary micronutrients,”
crops per acre, Smith advises like calcium and sulphur,
corn growers be more invested Smith said.
in nutrient application. That Of all of these options, not
ROCCO LAURIENZO/DAILY NEWS
goes beyond just dumping ni- one is a silver bullet. But Smith
Dr. J.Julian Smith, president and co-founder of CZO Agronomics
trogen into the crop. said he’s seen enough research
speaks about increased yields at the Corn Congress.
“It’s not just the total amount that adding late-season nitro-
upwards of 542 bushels per Record-seekers will pour - it’s when you put the dang gen, boron and a strobilurin
acre. money into a small percentage stuff on,” he said. “You can fungicide produce good results.
Smith has worked with corn of their land, seeking some-
and soybean yield champions. thing not feasible to do on a
“What sets them apart is a
zest for perfection ... they are so
thirsty for knowledge on every
large scale — similar to inves-
tors in top-level auto racing
teams.
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program or formula that will
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Food Studio North and Max for campus food
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on-campus restaurants, are
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harvested from the e-Garden
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Thursday, March 1, 2018
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ed in the House Committee
on Education and the Work-
force that would lower the tax
burden for students involved
in 4-H and Future Farmers of
America programs.
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nity to invest their earnings in
future projects, college funds,
or savings accounts, Congress-
man Chris Collins, R-Williams-
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for the bipartisan legislation
titled the Student Agriculture
Protection Act of 2017.
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structive ways for students
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For all its promise,NY hemp not ready yet
COMMODITIES: Research and field trials show barriers that must be overcome for potential crop’s mass-market production
By JIM KRENCIK
jkrencik@batavianews.com
BATAVIA — Re-establish-
ing hemp as a commodity is a
challenge that will take more
than state government en-
couragement and vocal sup-
porters to overcome.
Researchers from the Cor-
nell Cooperative Extension
told a Soybean and Small
Grains Congress crowd last
week that industrial hemp re-
mains a promising plant with
many applications. But devel-
oping a sustainable crop will
require several more rounds of
tests before hemp gains a foot-
hold in New York.
Jodi Letham, a field crops
specialist with the Northwest
New York Dairy, Livestock
and Fields Crops team based
in Mount Morris, said she’s
moved quickly into her new
role as the team’s industrial
hemp expert.
“I’m still learning, just like
the rest of us are,” Letham told
the Congress, held Wednesday
in Batavia.
Cornell, along with teams in
a majority of states, has been
active in researching hemp
cultivars at its College of Ag-
riculture and Life Sciences in
Ithaca and the Agricultural
Experiment Station in Gene-
va. Farm research expanded
in 2017 to 25 sites, primarily
With sunny conditions, hemp can grow quickly in upstate New York. Plants reached 8.5 feet high in
test conditions last summer.
in the Finger Lakes region,
that planted 1,700 acres of a
dual-purpose grain and fiber
variety.
In 2017, Cornell ran trials of
six cultivars — meant for grain,
fiber, or both.
The plants grew quickly —
rising two inches on days with
adequate sunlight; and within
seven weeks stood taller than
the researchers. In Ithaca, the
crops grew to 8.5 feet in just
under 2.5 months.
Letham said that the field
testing presented many hin-
drances, even to the research-
ers themselves. Hemp has
both male and female plants,
and pollination happens on a
large scale.
“When the male crops were
pollinating, it was like walking
through dust,” she said,
With no pesticides certified
for hemp, growers faced an
impossible task in managing
weeds that popped up and
competed with hemp. Nor
could they prevent Japanese
beetles from chewing through
the leaves. The hum of bees
filled the fields — they loved
the hemp.
Letham said growers plant-
ed 30 pounds of centime-
ter-sized hemp seeds per acre,
but practical yields were in-
consistent.
“Every site was different —
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we never saw a uniform field,” convinced that they will be noting that outside of a fiber
Letham said. “Parts would planting hemp anytime soon. additive, hemp doesn’t have
be gorgeous and other parts “It’s very difficult to do all enough nutritional value.
didn’t establish well.” this research into a product VoteHemp, a non-profit cit-
with no defined uses,” one ed in Letham’s presentation,
HIGH-VISIBILITY CROP said from the crowd. estimated that in 2016, the U.S.
Growers working with Cor- Another planter, thinking
hemp market totaled $688 mil-
nell last summer were allowed of the five dry tons per acre
lion. Personal care products
to sell their harvest, but none some test varieties produced,
like beauty products and herb-
attempted to find a market. It asked hopefully if it could pro-
wasn’t that they didn’t get at- al oils made up a quarter of the
vide a plentiful livestock feed.
tention. Letham popped that balloon, See HEMP T22
“(Everywhere we went),
people were calling the cops
because they thought the
farmers were growing mar-
ijuana in their back forty,”
Letham said. “It was pretty
comical.”
Hemp production has been
banned since the 1970 Con-
trolled Substance Act classi-
fied it in the same category as
marijuana. The two plants are
cousins, but nearly all the vari-
eties being tested in New York
have insignificant levels of the
THC and CBD.
Pilot programs will need to
create both a scientific and
economic example to suc-
ceed. Local agriculture could
be among the beneficiaries of
an established hemp industry.
Last fall, a workshop in Batavia
suggested Genesee and Orle-
ans counties would be ideal for
hemp production.
Agriculturalists at the com-
modity congress were far from
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Stopping
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on a cold
winter day
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A horse digs around with its hoof to break the
ice in a shallow pool of water Feb. 19 on East
Bethany Road in Bethany.
Hemp
From T21
market, with food, medicinal,
textile and industrial applica-
tions all nearing or surpassing
$100 million.
Among the concepts using
hemp are fiber-rich protein
powder, growing it as a “very
bitter” micro-green, mixing it
with lime to create a “hemp-
crete,” and a gluten-free flour
processed in Wayne County.
Letham said Cornell is try-
ing to build interest among
growers, evaluate markets and
processors, build a network of
New York-grown and grow-
able varieties, and have a sus-
tainable crop.
Research will continue to
expand. The University and
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State eyes reforms to school lunch policies

By JIM KRENCIK
jkrencik@batavianews.com
ALBANY — A pledge that
no student should go hun-
gry will be included in the
upcoming State of the State
Address, a signal that a lo-
calization of school nutrition
sources is gaining strength.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said
Thursday he will push to
double the state’s commit-
ment to Farm to School pro-
grams to $1.5 million in 2018.
Schools would also see
their reimbursement for stu-
dent lunches increase from
$0.059 per meal to 25 cents
per meal so long as they pur-
chase at least 30 percent of
ingredients from New York
farms.
“It’s a fantastic idea,” said
Steve Ammerman, the New
York Farm Bureau’s Associ-
ate Director of Public Policy.
“Not only will this put more
healthy, nutritious food into
the bellies of our young stu-
dents, it increases the market
(for farmers.)”
Cuomo’s proposal is based
on the impact of having 2.7
million residents, including
almost 1 million children,
without consistent access to
food.
Schools present — for
most of the year — a reliable
point of attack and source
of need for hunger and mal-
nutrition issues. The State
Education Department has
studied the public school
population and found that
nearly 60 percent of students
are eligible for reduced-price
or free breakfasts at school,
but only 34 percent eat it on
a given day.
“No child should ever go
hungry, and by launching According to a USDA Farm their eligibility for free lunch
the No Student Goes Hungry to School Census, many lo- or be denied food.
Program, New York will en- cal districts already have Cuomo also proposes a re-
sure hundreds of thousands some form of nutritional tie quirement to have food pan-
of students of all ages will to their local farming com-
receive access to free and re- munity — including Batavia, tries at all SUNY campuses to
serve their communities and
duced-price meals,” Cuomo Byron-Bergen, Le Roy, Oak-
said. field-Alabama and Pembroke students.
Not every proposal is re- in Genesee County. Ammer- Ammerman said the state’s
quired for all districts. A man said districts may want agricultural producers can
proposal to require longer to do more, but they face lo- meet the call for more avail-
periods for breakfast meals gistical hurdles. able food. They’ve already
at schools is required only “For schools, it has to be
made increasing commit-
where more than 70 percent cost effective and efficient ...
of students get lunch dis- if we have the ability to make ments as the procurement
counts. In Batavia, that num- more affordable and easy (to regulations for schools, state
ber is lower, said Superinten- prepare), more will choose to prisons and universities have
dent of Schools Christopher participate,” he said. been loosened.
Dailey. Among the state proposals Even with winter in full
City Schools did not com- is a ban on “lunch shaming” force, the state’s growers still
ment on the proposals, through policies that Cuomo
have fresh apples, squash,
which will take time to review said are disgraceful and hu-
and consider, Dailey noted. miliating. Those include hav- beets and potatoes and other
The district has not received ing students receiving lesser foods that store well, not to
any information on the pro- quality lunches, having to mention dairy products that
posals. wear or present a signal of are available year-round.

USDA says farm loans continue to grow

WASHINGTON — The U.S.
Department of Agriculture
Farm Service Agency has an-
nounced another year of high
activity in its farm loan pro-
grams.
According to the US-
DA Farm Service Agency,
hard-working farm families
years,” said Dr. Robert Jo-
hansson, Acting Deputy Un-
der Secretary for the Farm
Production and Conserva-
tion mission area. “We pro-
vide opportunities to qual-
ified small, beginning and
underserved farmers who are
unable to obtain commercial
loans up to $50,000; and EZ served farmers and ranchers. croloans made in the last
Guarantees up to $100,000 • Over 4,200 beginning fiscal year, three-quarters —
with streamlined application farmers received direct farm
almost 4,900 — went to be-
processes. ownership loans from FSA
• More than 25,000 direct to make their first land pur- ginning farmers, 1,000 went
and guaranteed FSA loans chase. to women and 400 to veter-
went to beginning or under- • Approximately 6,500 Mi- ans.

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across the country accessed
nearly $6 billion in new cred-
it in 2017, either directly or
guaranteed through com-
mercial lenders.
At year end, FSA was assist-
ing more than 120,000 family
farmers with loans totaling
just over $25 billion.
“FSA loan funds have been
in high demand the last few
credit, to help them get start-
ed, gain access to land and
grow their operations.”
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