Resources
FARM TO INSTITUTION
COVID-19 RESOURCES
Funding to Support Emergency Feeding During COVID-19 School Closures
Find the details and applications for various emergency feeding funding opportunities available.
https://harvestny.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=94&crumb=local_foods|3
Food Production, Processing and Safety Questions
Find answers to questions around the risks associated with food production and to your employees to ensure that a safe and robust food supply is maintained for the public. You can find useful links to expert resources to help address your specific questions. Resources are updated frequently as the situation changes and new information becomes available.
https://instituteforfoodsafety.cornell.edu/coronavirus-covid-19/
Employment and Agricultural Workforce Questions
The Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development team has assembled many resources to help you protect your workforce, your business, and your markets during the COVID-19 pandemic. Find H2A updates and more!
http://agworkforce.cals.cornell.edu/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/
Using Online Marketing to Build Resilience
Cornell Small Farms offers guidance on how to sell online to help build your farm's resilience through this pandemic.
https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2020/04/using-online-marketing-to-build-resilience/
Farmer's Guide to Direct Sales Software Platforms
Created by the National Young Farmers Coalition, this guide compares farm-specific software platforms that support direct-to-consumer sales, and highlights related educational resources.
Farmer's Market Safety Protocols
New York State Agriculture and Market guidance provided for farmers' market operators and vendors in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
https://agriculture.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/04/interimguidancefarmersmarkets.pdf
Best Management Practices for U-Pick Farms
Providing recommendations for best management practices and communication strategies for U-Pick operations for the 2020 season.
Coronavirus NYC Neighborhood Food Resource Guides
Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center developed Coronavirus NYC Food Resource Guides for each NYC neighborhood to help connect community members in need with food resources during this challenging time. Each resource guide includes information related to food access within the community, such as meals for students and seniors during this time, delivery services for people with disabilities, and resources for immigrants.
https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/coronavirus-nyc-food-reports/
Cornell Small Farms Resiliency Resources
Ideas on how to take care of yourself, your farm, and your local community. These resources offer support on the various aspects of farming during a crisis, with a focus on the current COVID-19 pandemic. The content was curated in partnership with educators, researchers and others. It is consistently updated as new information and resources are available.
https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/resources/farm-resilience/
General Questions and Updates: NY Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN)
Find the latest updates on coronavirus impacts in New York. This website is a one-stop source for links to resources for ag, workforce, food industry, food safety, dairy industry, horticulture, H-2A, family, animal care, business relief, and social distancing.
GENERAL
Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE)
The Cornell Cooperative Extension website provides an overview of CCE programs across New York State.
Cornell Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs)
Information about the National GAPs Program and upcoming GAPs events.
NYS Department of Agriculture & Markets
http://www.agriculture.ny.gov/
DAIRY
Cornell Dairy Foods Extension Website
This website lists the dates of different dairy food workshops that Cornell University offers to the public.
http://dairyextension.foodscience.cornell.edu
NYS Regulations for Processing Milk
This site lists regulations that must be adhered to when manufacturing milk in New York State
http://www.agriculture.ny.gov/DI/DIBusiness.html
Pasteurized Milk Ordinance
This document lists out Grade A regulations for manufacturing milk and dairy products in the United States
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/GuidanceRegulation/UCM291757.pdf
FOOD HUBS
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Regional Food
Food hub impacts on regional food systems, and the resources available to support their growth and development
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5097957
National Good Food Network
The National Good Food Network is bringing together people from all parts of the rapidly emerging good food system, to include producers, buyers, distributors, advocates, investors and funders, to create a community dedicated to scaling up good food sourcing and access. Click on the link to access a vast database of food hub resources, to include hundreds of archived webinars.
GREENHOUSE & TUNNELS
Cornell University High Tunnel
This site provides growers with more information from Cornell's high tunnel team: types of structures, business and marketing resources, and crops that grow particularly well in the tunnel environment.
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/hightunnel/index.html
SARE Season Extension Topic Room
A section of the Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE) website, the season extension topic room provides nationwide research in the areas of variety trials, fertility management, pest management, water management, energy, and marketing and economics.
http://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Topic-Rooms/Season-Extension-Topic-Room
HEALTHY FOOD INCENTIVES
Fair Food Network
Read the SNAP Healthy Food Incentives Cluster Analysis report to see how these programs are addressing issues of food access, growing the economy and supporting local farmers.
http://www.fairfoodnetwork.org/resources
NEW YORK STATE PRODUCE AUCTIONS
How to Purchase at the NYS Produce Auctions
http://harvestny.cce.cornell.edu/uploads/doc_47.pdf
Produce Auctions in NYS (map)
http://harvestny.cce.cornell.edu/uploads/doc_46.pdf
CCE REGIONAL AGRICULTURE TEAMS
Central NY Dairy & Field Crops Program
Cornell Vegetable Program
Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program
Finger Lakes Grape Program
Lake Erie Regional Grape Program
Lake Ontario Fruit Program
NWNY Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops Program
http://nwnyteam.cce.cornell.edu
South Central NY Dairy & Field Crops Program
http://scnydfc.cce.cornell.edu
BUSINESS
Cornell Small Farms Program
http://www.smallfarms.cornell.edu
NE Beginning Farmer Program
http://nebeginningfarmers.org/
GUIDELINES
Cornell Guidelines
The Cornell Guidelines offer the latest information on topics such as pest management and crop production. Each title in the series is updated by Cornell University researchers and Extension specialists and is designed as a practical guide for agricultural and horticultural crop producers, turf and landscape managers, crop consultants and industry advisers.
http://store.cornell.edu/c-875-pmep-guidelines.aspx
Organic Production Guides
Organic Production Guides for 8 vegetable groups, tree and small fruit, and dairy.
http://nysipm.cornell.edu/organic_guide/
Upcoming Events
Announcements
New Guide Shares Practical Information on How to Grow and Care for Pawpaws
Not sure what a 'pawpaw' is? The pawpaw (Asimina triloba) is a fruiting tree native to the eastern United States, growing from the Florida lowlands up to the Southern Tier in New York. It is believed that the pawpaw's range is as large as it is because Indigenous Peoples cultivated this tree. Pawpaws have great value as a food crop. They contain 7 of the 9 essential amino acids and are an excellent source of iron and manganese.Pawpaws in New York: A Guide on How to Grow and Care for Pawpaws, written by Anya Osatuke, Berry Specialist with CCE Harvest NY, Sean Dembrosky of Edible Acres in Trumansburg, NY, and Marvin Pritts of Cornell University, shares practical information on how to grow and care for pawpaws, based on conversations with growers and researchers in New York State and the information provided by the references cited.