Past News Articles
- Local Buyers Support 2009
Wyoming County 4-H Meat Animal Auctions
This year 4-H members sold 107 hogs, 30 lambs, 9 dairy steers and 8
beef steers during the 41st Annual Wyoming County 4-H Meat Animal Auctions
in Pike, NY. The two auctions combined grossed more than $135,000 total
in animal sales. / August 2009
- Home Gardeners -- Check your garden
for Late Blight on tomatoes and potatoes!
Home gardeners need to be on the lookout for Late Blight - a very destructive
and very infectious disease that's killing tomato and potato plants
in gardens and on commercial farms in the eastern U.S. /
August 2009
- Wyoming County Reality
Check Teens Join Commissioner Daines in NYC to Call for Smoke-Free Movies
for Youth
On June 1st, Wyoming County teens from Attica and Warsaw High School
helped represent the Buffalo Area as members of Reality Check, an anti-tobacco
youth action grant program sponsored by the New York State Department
of Health, at the Reality Check Statewide Summit in NYC. /
June 2009
- Wyoming County Youth Excel at New
York 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl
On Saturday, April 25, the New York State 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl Contest
took place at Cornell University in Ithaca. 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl is a
jeopardy-like activity organized and held on a local, regional and state
level for youth from ages 8 to 19 who have an interest in learning about
the dairy industry. / April 2009
- Mike Emerling Named 2009 Pride of Agriculture
Good Neighbor
Announcement of Mike Emerling as the 2009 Pride of Agriculture Good
Neighbor highlighted the Wyoming County Chamber of Commerce’s second
annual Pride of Agriculture dinner on Saturday, March 28th.
/ March 2009
- 2009 Agriculture and Home Gardening Enrollment
For 95 years, Cornell University Cooperative Extension Wyoming County
has been proactively developing agricultural and horticultural educational
programs to address the needs of the county’s citizens.
/ January 2009
- Reality Check Youth Work
With Local Business Owner to Remove Tobacco Advertising
Realty Check youth from Perry School worked with local business owner,
Steve Smyder, from the Perry Market Place to remove the exterior tobacco
advertising at his store. / Summer 2008
- Dairy Initiative Aims to Improve Profitability
By Matt Surtel, The Daily News, 12/22/07
Dairy farmers are experts when it comes to production. Their skill and
knowledge has helped make Wyoming County the state's top dairy region.
But profitability can be a challenge, where price per hundredweight
is notoriously shaky. / December 2007
- Wyoming County Dairy Institute
Wyoming County can boast of the fact that it ranks first in the Empire
State in dairy production. The average herd size of our dairy operations
is ever increasing. This larger herd size brings with it the demand
for a skilled and dedicated work force. ‘To keep the existing work
force abreast of the ever changing technologies while simultaneously
attracting an emerging local work force’ was identified as a barrier
to the future success of our dairy operations in the county.
/ September 2007
- Wyoming Initiative for School Health
The WISH (Wyoming Initiative for School Health) is well on its way to
reaching many Wyoming County school-aged children to teach them the
importance of eating healthy and exercising. /
July 2007
- Wyoming County Dairy Fest 2007
The dairy fest this year was a great success. /
June 2007
- Art In The Garden Celebration
The Master Gardeners at Cornell Cooperative Extension, Wyoming County,
are sponsoring Art in the Garden, a Home Grown garden celebration, on
Saturday, May 12th from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the Legion Hall
in the Warsaw Village Park. The event is free and open to the public.
/ May 2007
- From the Director's Desk
Excerpts taken from the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wyoming County
Annual Report 2006. To view the entire Annual Report, click
here. / January 2007
- Help Support 4-H at the Movies!
For every ticket purchased for Paramount Pictures and Walden Media's
production of Charlotte's Web through www.fourhcouncil.edu,
Hollywood Movie Money will make a $1 donation to 4-H to help support
your state's 4-H program. / December 2006
- Emergency Forage Exchange
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton joined Cornell Cooperative Extension
and the New York Farm Bureau Foundation for Agricultural Education,
Inc. in launching an Emergency Forage Exchange and a Feed and Forage
Transportation Fund to provide feed and cash assistance for farmers
in New York State who have been severely impacted by the recent flooding.
The website will be active through December 2006 at which point continuation
will be reconsidered based on need. / July 2006
- It's Farmers' Market Time
June is the month most local farmers’ markets come alive with fresh
produce. The Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program is a federally funded
program that provides coupon books to WIC families to use at their local
farmers’ market or farm stand. The coupons can be used to buy locally
grown fresh fruits and vegetables. / June 2006
