SCNY Dairy & Field Crops Team

The South Central NY Dairy & Field Crops (SCNY DFCT) Team serves Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Tioga & Tompkins Counties to help producers meet their goals and enhance dairy farm profitability to maintain a strong dairy industry in the region.

The South Central NY Dairy and Field Crops Program works with farmers on:

• Forage Quality
• Integrated Crop Management
• Water Quality & Environmental Compatibility with Crops
• Dairy Enterprise Performance & Management
• Dairy Replacement Enterprise
• Dairy Feeds and Feeding
• Dairy Livestock Environments
• Intensive Management Grazing
• Small farm technologies
• Direct Marketing & On-farm Processing
• Organic Dairy Transition
• Crop Insurance Education

Dairy farms dominate the farm landscape, and they account for 2/3 to 3/4 of the farm sales in the region. Abundant natural rainfall and a great tradition of dairy farming makes the Northeast an important dairy-producing area of the country.

This program is supported by Cornell University and the Cornell Cooperative Extension Associations of Chemung, Cortland, Tioga & Tompkins Counties

Last updated February 17, 2023