Joe Lawrence

Senior Extension Associate/Dairy Forage Systems Specialist, PRO-DAIRY, Animal Science

Joe Lawrence is PRO-DAIRY’s dairy forage crop production system specialist. He focuses on dairy forage systems management, drawing from his experience working with the New York dairy industry as a private sector certified crop advisor (CCA) and as a field crops educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension. 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 multi-disciplinary team to implement the annual Commercial Corn Silage Hybrid Evaluation program in New York and Vermont.

Education

M.S., Major: Soil Science, Minor: Field Crop Science - Cornell University '08
B.T., Plant Science: Agronomy - State University of New York at Cobleskill '04
A.A.S., Civil Engineering Technology - State University of New York at Canton '02

Contact Information

(315) 778-4814

jrl65 [at] cornell.edu

- PRO-DAIRY Forage Systems

Joe in the news

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News

August 17, 2026

Professional development in Animal Science: '26 Research Poster Session

Each year, undergraduates from a wide variety of academic and professional backgrounds come together to share their research and summer internship experiences with colleagues, peers, farmers and more. Read on to learn about their summer...

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Report

July 29, 2026

Annual ryegrass cover crop in New York

This fact sheet was authored by Joe Lawrence, PRO-DAIRY forage systems specialist, Kirsten Workman, PRO-DAIRY nutrient management specialist, and Mike Hunter, IPM coordinator, and was shared in the July 2026 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter...

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