Jason Karszes
Senior Extension Associate, Animal Science PRO-DAIRY

Jason Karszes is a dairy farm management specialist with the PRO-DAIRY Program at Cornell University. His extension, teaching, and research efforts have centered on financial performance analysis and decision making programs for dairy farms and the use of Cornell’s Dairy Farm Business Summary and Analysis Program. Working with 80 to 100 dairy producers a year, he focuses on annual business performance, budgeting, decision making, activity analysis, and goal setting to improve business performance. He also coordinates activities across the state for Cornell University’s Dairy Farm Business Summary and Analysis Program. Along with the whole farm financial analysis program, he has worked on developing key monthly data monitoring programs, cost center activity analysis programs, and facilitates multiple business discussion groups centered on financial and business performance. He developed and coordinates the Cornell Dairy Executive Program, which focuses on further developing business management skills for progressive dairy producers around the country.
Contact Information
Dairy Farm Business Management
B21 Morrison Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
jk57 [at] cornell.edu
fax: (607) 255-1589
Jason in the news

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This fact sheet authored by PRO-DAIRY business management specialists Mary Kate MacKenzie and Jason Karszes was shared in the October 2023 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice...
- Cornell Cooperative Extension
- PRO-DAIRY
- Animal Science

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The Dairy Farm Business Summary & Analysis Project (DFBS) is one of the longest applied research efforts within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University that interacts directly with rural stakeholders of the land grant...
- Cornell Cooperative Extension
- PRO-DAIRY
- Animal Science