By Kirk Arnold
I hope everyone has been having a good start to the grazing season this year. For us, it started early and then we got a week long heat wave and had very mature pastures before we knew it. It led to some challenges with the milk cow grazing rotation but in the end worked out fairly well. On our last NODPA Board call, as always, we do a regional check in and it seemed like everyone, even though we are all in the Northeast, have had some very different spring weather conditions from one another--from droughts and being short on pasture in June to being too wet to get seedings in.
While I won't be able to make it to the NODPA Field Days this year, I feel we have a great lineup of farms, speakers, and farmer panelists. Farm transitions can be a challenge, whether it's adding a new member to the management team or ownership, transitioning to the next generation, or giving up long held responsibilities. The hope is that learning from what others have done and experienced can help some other farms/farmers with their own farm transitions.
Kirk Arnold, NODPA Co-President
Truxton, NY | Phone: 607-842-6631, Email: kickaha21@gmail.com