Lainey Koval

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Extension Support Specialist, PRO-DAIRY, Animal Science

Lainey Koval has been working part-time with PRO-DAIRY, starting during her senior year at Cornell, and is now on staff full-time. She will provide administrative support for the Dairy Farm Business Summary and Analysis (DFBS) project and work with discussion groups, activity analysis projects, and Dairy Profit Monitor.

Koval grew up on her family's dairy farm (Koval Brothers Dairy in Saratoga, New York) and is passionate about farm financial analysis and communicating research to dairy producers.

Education

B.S., Agricultural Science with minors in Food and Agricultural Business and Animal Science - Cornell University '24

Contact Information

B21 Morrison Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

(518) 366-3737

hlk65 [at] cornell.edu

- PRO-DAIRY Business

Lainey in the news

Report

October 17, 2025

Hired labor on New York state dairy farms

Hired labor plays a significant role on dairy farms, with more than 9,000 jobs provided by New York dairy farms in 2019. As farm size grows, hired employees provide a larger percentage of the labor required to operate the farm. In 2021, authors...

Cornell Cooperative Extension
PRO-DAIRY
Animal Science

Report

October 17, 2025

Trends in herd dynamics and production

The 2024 business year was a higher earnings year on average across New York dairy farms that participated in the Dairy Farm Business Summary (DFBS), as noted in the 2024 DFBS Progress of the Dairy Farm Report. Strong milk prices and component...

Cornell Cooperative Extension
PRO-DAIRY
Animal Science