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.
