Joe Lawrence

Dairy Forage Systems Specialist, PRO-DAIRY

Joe Lawrence joined the PRO-DAIRY team in 2016 in a newly created Dairy Forage Systems Specialist position. He focuses on dairy forage systems management, drawing from his experience working with the NY dairy industry as a private sector certified crop advisor (CCA) and as a Field Crops Educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension (Lewis Co. CCE). The program works to integrate agronomic management of forage crops with harvest and feeding practices to optimize the use of forages in the dairy ration. He leads a multidisciplinary team to implement the annual Commercial Corn Silage Hybrid Testing program in NY and Vermont with additional regional collaborations with Penn State and the University of Vermont.

Contact Information

(315) 778-4814

jrl65 [at] cornell.edu

Joe in the news

corn silage being chopped and loaded into a truck

Report

November 17, 2023

2023 New York and Vermont Corn Silage Hybrid Evaluation Program

In 2023, the corn silage hybrid evaluation program received 75 entries from 17 seed brands. Hybrid evaluation at multiple environments helps in decision making and expands the reach of this type of data to more farmers. Cornell, UVM, and seed...

Cornell Cooperative Extension
PRO-DAIRY
Animal Science

Report

November 7, 2023

2023 Corn silage overview

This fact sheet authored by Joe Lawrence and Allison Kerwin was shared in a November PRO-DAIRY e-Leader Forage Systems alert, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. The 2023 growing season...

Cornell Cooperative Extension
PRO-DAIRY
Animal Science