Mary Kate MacKenzie

Farm Business Management Specialist, PRO-DAIRY, Animal Science

About

Mary Kate is a Farm Business Management Specialist with the PRO-DAIRY business management team. She works with dairy producers to improve record-keeping systems, analyze farm financial performance, and plan for the future. She brings a passion for helping farm families improve their management skills in order to achieve their business and personal goals. Mary Kate and her husband operate Sweet Grass Meats, a grazing farm and retail meat business in Naples, NY.

Education

B.A., Environmental Studies - Bowdoin College '07
M.S., Applied Economics and Management - Cornell University '17

Contact Information

B21 Morrison Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Ithaca, NY 14853

mkw87 [at] cornell.edu

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Mary Kate in the news

Report

April 29, 2025

How much is New York's 20% farmer investment tax credit worth today?

This fact sheet authored by PRO-DAIRY business management specialist Mary Kate MacKenzie was shared in the April 2025 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. In...

Cornell Cooperative Extension
PRO-DAIRY
Animal Science

Report

January 7, 2025

Six year trend analysis

PRO-DAIRY business management specialists Mary Kate MacKenzie and Jason Karszes shared these reports in the December 2024 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators...

Cornell Cooperative Extension
PRO-DAIRY
Animal Science