e-Leader Newsletter

Timely news is delivered via e-Alerts and a monthly e-Leader emailed newsletter. This list is also used for program, webinar and forage management updates. Highlights from e-Leader are featured below.
A dairy cow inside a barn

Report

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
a man crouches in front of a line of dairy cows

Field Note

Haowen Hu ’26 is a doctoral student in the Animal Science Department working under the supervision of Kristan Reed, former Animal Science faculty member and the scientific director of the RuFaS project. His main research focuses on the Ruminant...
  • Animal Science
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Dairy
drought stressed corn

Report

This fact sheet authored by PRO-DAIRY forage systems specialist Joe Lawrence was shared in the September 2025 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. The 2025...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
two people standing by a science poster

News

Through the internship program students have discovered unexpected career paths, gained hands-on experience in their fields of study, received job offers, networked professionally and invigorated interest in their field of study. The internships...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
3 people standing together

News

These awards are given in appreciation and recognition of outstanding contributions to NYS agriculture through support of PRO-DAIRY. “This year’s recipients, a farmer and an agriservice professional, join a distinguished list of award winners...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY