The Manager
The Manager is a 16-page insert published in Progressive Dairy three times a year. Through a useful combination of research updates, on-farm practices, economic analysis, how-to’s and action steps on every aspect of managing a dairy business, PRO-DAIRY uses The Manager to strengthen New York’s dairy industry and as a key method for PRO-DAIRY staff to share their expertise statewide.
Circulation of Progressive Dairy, including The Manager insert is more than 9,000 farms in the eastern United States and an additional 3,200 farms in New York and Vermont. Issues of The Manager are downloaded from the PRO-DAIRY website, on average 50,000 times each year.
A monthly newsletter to an email list of over 7,000 producers, agriservice and legislators. This list is also used for program, webinar and forage management updates.
Presentations from several PRO-DAIRY conferences are available in electronic and hard-copy format. Additionally, recordings from select virtual events are available to purchase.
Cornell Dairy Management and PRO-DAIRY offer online courses in an on-demand format that includes recorded video lectures and weekly quizzes.
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PRO-DAIRY specialists publish reports, fact sheets, white papers and case studies targeted toward specific program topic areas.
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The Dairy Farm Business Summary & Analysis Project (DFBS) is one of the longest applied research efforts within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University that interacts directly with rural stakeholders of the land grant...
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This update was released in the September 2023 issue of PRO-DAIRY's e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. With the unpredictable cycles in the dairy industry and...
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Sunnyside Farms, Scipio Center, and John Lehr, Farm Credit East, received the 2023 PRO-DAIRY Agriservice Award presented by NYS Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball and Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY Director Dr. Thomas Overton during the Dairy Day...
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Chobani and Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) began a partnership in 2020 seeking to develop, test, and incentivize use of sustainability indicators for dairy farms. Recently, NMSP and PRO-DAIRY interns had the opportunity...
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