All Things Agriculture

William (Bill) Kornblum worked on our dairy farm during the summers of 1954-1957 while in high school. He returns for the first time in 65 years to tell us his story about working at the farm! My father, Dan, makes an appearance in this episode too.

Eric Carey the host of All things Agriculture Podcast. I am a 5th generation dairy farmer in Groton NY. We milk 300 cows and practice rotational grazing. 

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Time Codes

00:30-Heather's media work at Farm Credit

3:20-Cranberries production in Massachusetts 

8:30-Young Dairy Leaders Institute

15:35- Positive agriculture message and social media

22:45 Heather's involvement in Toast Masters

31:45-Challenges of living with Type 1 Diabetes 

44:45-Making a media platform to connect the benefits of dairy and type 1 diabetes 

50:20- Heather and Andrew's engagement!

Troy Bishopp a.k.a The Grass Whisperer has a custom grazing operation in Deansboro New York, is a member of the media, and works for the Madison County conservation district as a grazing specialist. 

Troy's website-https://thegrasswhisperer.com/

I'm Eric Carey the host of All things Agriculture Podcast. I am a 5th generation dairy farmer in Groton NY. We milk 300 cows and practice rotational grazing. 

Send me an email with any questions or comments at: allthingsagr@gmail.com

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Timecodes

0:00-Intro

2:25-Meet Troy

9:15-Troy's time as a dairy farmer

20:00-Soil health/cover crops and its challenges

33:15 "Everyone likes recipies"

43:15-Organic matter/ soil fertility/manure

53:40 Sharing/leasing equipment

59:45 What is a "good farmer?"

1:08:42 Public perception of agriculture

1:20:00 Lack of Agriculture spokesperson

1:29:30 Troy's online presence

***I had audio issues with the end of Heather's episode so we will reshoot and publish a part 2 where we cover even more interesting topics. Stay tuned!

Heather Hunt is a 2015 Cornell graduate who currently works for Farm Credit East.

I'm Eric Carey the host of All things Agriculture Podcast. I am a 5th generation dairy farmer in Groton NY. We milk 300 cows and practice rotational grazing. 

Send me an email with any questions or comments at: allthingsagr@gmail.com

Follow and All Things Agriculture Podcast on facebook! 

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​You can now listen to the podcast in audio form on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, Breaker, Castbox, Overcast, Radio Public, Anchor, and Pocket Cast! Just search "All things Agriculture" 

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Timecodes

0:00- Intro

1:35- Meet Heather

4:25-Heather's Cornell experience/Study abroad in Ireland

18:20-Heather at Farm Credit

23:15-Heather's new role as "CEO" at Farm Credit

*CORRECTION (Ted Hawley's malting company from Batavia, NY is named "New York Craft Malt LLC" not Valley malt which was incorrectly mentioned in the podcast. Valley malt is a different malting company)  

Karl Kunze is a PhD student at Cornell University and is working on a barley research project. Listen to him talk about his research, travel, and much more.   

Karl's contact information- Email: khk44@cornell.edu  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-kunze-342908140/  Website: https://karlkunze.github.io/   

 I'm Eric Carey the host of All things Agriculture Podcast. I am a 5th generation dairy farmer in Groton NY. We milk 300 cows and practice rotational grazing.   

Send me an email with any questions or comments at: allthingsagr@gmail.com 

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Time stamps 0:00 Intro 1:10 Introduce Karl 7:00 Karl's plant breeding study at Cornell 12:00 History of barley and Karl's research project 16:50 What is the future of plant genetics/breeding? 26:18 Barley diseases organic vs conventional  31:20 Karl's plans post school 38:40 Pictures 1:06:00 Summerhill Brewery and Groton Ag Program 1:12:05 Karl's time abroad in Netherlands 1:20:15 Karl's trip to Chile 1:23:30 Karl's trip to Japan 1:28:00 Pictures of Karl's home farm 1:29:35 Karl's grandfather in WWII 1:38:55 What Karl would do if not in agriculture

Mark Van Erden lives in Fabius, New York. He manages Fabius Greenwood Dairy, one of 5 dairies his family own and operate.   

I'm Eric Carey the host of All things Agriculture Podcast. I am a 5th generation dairy farmer in Groton NY. We milk 300 cows and practice rotational grazing.  

 Send me an email with any questions or comments at: allthingsagr@gmail.com  

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Time Codes 0:00 Intro 1:45 Mark's background 11:00 Mark's daily schedule 16:55 Cayuga Marketing Milk Coop 21:35 Pictures of the dairy 45:25 Pictures of long range shooting 54:40 The rifle for long range competition  1:01:20 Mark's hobbies 1:06:05 What would you do if not in ag? 1:08:05 Mark's summer internship in George/Florida

Jason Henry is a 4th generation farmer located in Eden Valley, NY where he and his family specialize in greenhouse production.   

I'm Eric Carey the host of All things Agriculture Podcast. I am a 5th generation dairy farmer in Groton NY. We milk 300 cows and practice rotational grazing.   

Send me an email with any questions or comments at: allthingsagr@gmail.com  Follow and All Things Agriculture Podcast on facebook!  https://www.facebook.com/All-Things-A... ​  

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Time codes 0:00 Intro 1:50 Jason's background and family farm 5:00 Jason's greenhouse operation 20:40 Jason's Internship 27:46 Hemp Production 46:40 Pros of working in a greenhouse 50:33 Eric & Pat's crazy greenhouse idea 51:30 Greenhouse soil operation 55:00 Poinsettia 59:15 Hydroponics 1:15:30 Jason's time abroad in New Zealand 1:21:30 Jason's trip to Easter Island 1:24:55 Jason's hobbies 1:28:23 What he would do if not in agriculture

Listen to Abbie Teeter-Stalkr talk about all the agriculture programs she had involvement in growing up. She currently works for Organic Valley and is from Ithaca, New York.

Tompkins County Dairy Princess Program contact:  Diedra Harkenrider 607-279-0335  

I'm Eric Carey the host of All things Agriculture Podcast. I am a 5th generation dairy farmer in Groton NY. We milk 300 cows and practice rotational grazing.   

Send me an email with any questions or comments at: allthingsagr@gmail.com  

Follow and All Things Agriculture Podcast on facebook!  https://www.facebook.com/All-Things-Agriculture-Podcast-102089605130715 

You can now listen to the podcast in audio form on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, Breaker, Castbox, Overcast, Radio Public, Anchor, and Pocket Cast! Just search "All things Agriculture"  https://anchor.fm/eric-carey?fbclid=I 

Time codes 0:00 Intro 1:50 Abbie's background 3:15 Beef and local food movement 8:30 Dairy Princess Program 15:30 How to contact your local Dairy Princess Program 16:35 Abbie's 4-H involvement 18:35 FFA Program/ New Visions 22:40 SUNY Cobleskill/ Cooperative Extension 31:29 Soil Health Trailer/ Soil Health 35:30 Working for Organic Valley Coop 39:10 Job if not in Ag. 40:20 Other hobbies 45:25 What's the future of Ag?

Amanda Jones works for Boehringer Ingelheim, a research driven pharmaceutical company, in Connecticut. She has done extensive research into Maternal Programming in small ruminants at UConn and the University of Colorado.   

I'm Eric Carey the host of All things Agriculture Podcast. I am a 5th generation dairy farmer in Groton NY. We milk 300 cows and practice rotational grazing.   

Send me an email with any questions or comments at: allthingsagr@gmail.com  

Follow and All Things Agriculture Podcast on facebook!  https://www.facebook.com/All-Things-Agriculture-Podcast-102089605130715  

You can now listen to the podcast in audio form on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, Breaker, Castbox, Overcast, Radio Public, Anchor, and Pocket Cast! Just search "All things Agriculture"  https://anchor.fm/eric-carey?fbclid=I  

Time codes 0:00 Intro 2:12 Meet Amanda 3:25 Riding horses 10:23 Cornell Western Team 12:25 Cornell/Horse Research 25:37 Working at a calf farm/Maternal Programming 39:00 Ultrasound Ewes for pregnancy  48:51 University of Colorado 51:45 Working for Boehringer Ingelheim  56:35 Does Amanda publish papers? 59:37 Amanda's hobbies and fun in Colorado 1:10:10 Planning her wedding during Covid 1:13:55 What job would you want outside of Ag? 1:21:40 Who would be your dream dinner date?

Listen to Niko talk about working with sheep in Germany, research at Cornell, and what she thinks the future of grazing sheep has to offer the Northeast United States.   I'm Eric Carey the host of All things Agriculture Podcast. I am a 5th generation dairy farmer in Groton NY. We milk 300 cows and practice rotational grazing.    Send me an email with any questions or comments at: allthingsagr@gmail.com   Like and follow All Things Agriculture Podcast on facebook!  https://www.facebook.com/All-Things-Agriculture-Podcast-102089605130715   You can now listen to the podcast in audio form on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, Breaker, Castbox, Overcast, Radio Public, Anchor, and Pocket Cast! Just search "All things Agriculture"  https://anchor.fm/eric-carey?fbclid=I

Timecodes

0:00 Intro 

1:40 Niko's background 

5:20 first farm job/working with dogs 

18:00 college and working on a dairy 

20:19 How Niko discovered Cornell 

23:35 Niko's sheep research 

37:35 Technology on German farms 

40:20 More research/solar grazing  

46:14 Lewis and Niko's business 

1:01:20 Advice for those interested in sheep 

1:03:27 Pictures 

1:16:55 Occupation other than sheep/farming 

1:17:40 How Eric learned to podcast 

1:24:00 Eric's dream podcast guest  

1:27:30 Lewis and Niko in the news 

1:28:45 Cornell sheep program contact info

Patrick Redmond was born and raised on a dairy farm in Scipio Center,  New York. He's been a manager on 2 large dairy farms since graduating from Cornell, but Pat made a career change in 2020 and has done a deep dive into the world of wines, ice cream, and duck farming (yes you read that correctly)!  

 I'm Eric Carey the host of All things Agriculture Podcast. I am a 5th generation dairy farmer in Groton NY. We milk 300 cows and practice rotational grazing.   

Send me an email with any questions or comments at: allthingsagr@gmail.com  

Follow and All Things Agriculture Podcast on facebook!  https://www.facebook.com/All-Things-Agriculture-Podcast-102089605130715 

You can now listen to the podcast in audio form on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, Breaker, Castbox, Overcast, Radio Public, Anchor, and Pocket Cast! Just search "All things Agriculture"  https://anchor.fm/eric-carey?fbclid=I 

Time codes 

 Intro- 0:00

Pat's background- 2:00

Pat's family farm- 5:40

Working on other dairies/Dairy Challenge- 10:05

Milk market- 24:05

How Pat started working at Wiemer Vineyard- 27:50

Pat's deep dive into ice cream Spotted Duck Creamery and duck farming- 57:50

Ice cream tasting- 1:15:20

Spotted Duck Creamery and Wiemer Vineyard location-1:29:30

I'm Eric Carey the host of All things Agriculture Podcast. I am a 5th generation dairy farmer in Groton NY. We milk 300 cows and practice rotational grazing.   Chad Branton is a crop farmer located in Stafford, NY. Chad and his father Donn Branton crop 1600 acres of mainly corn and beans. Learn about the practice of no-till planting, cover crops, GMOs and much more!   Send me an email with any questions or comments at: allthingsagr@gmail.com   Follow and All Things Agriculture Podcast on facebook!  https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=all%20things%20agriculture%20podcast  You can now listen to the podcast in audio form on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, Breaker, Castbox, Overcast, Radio Public, Anchor, and Pocket Cast! Just search "All things Agriculture"  https://anchor.fm/eric-carey?fbclid=I  Timecodes 0:00 - Intro  1:00 - Meet Chad Branton  2:30 - What is no-till planting?  3:40 - Branton Farm history  7:50 - How Donn Branton (Chad's father) started no-till planting  9:15 - Benefits of no-till  12:45 - What are cover crops?  18:45 - Pictures of no-till planting and cover crops  1:07:00 - Planting non GMO crops  1:10:21 - Pros & cons of non GMO   1:14:12 - Career if you didn't work in ag.  1:15:55 - Chad's hobbies  1:23:00 - Working with family 1:24:45 -Internships/ Frozen manure stories 1:29:00 - Chad's time at RIT

Hello! I am your host Eric Carey a 5th generation dairy farmer. I co-own Carey Farm LLC in Groton New York with my parents. We milk 300 cows and rotationally graze from April to November. 

Meet Tyler Beck a local dairy producer. His family owns Beck Farm LLC located in Freeville NY and Alpine Dairy in Virgil NY. Listen to Tyler talk about how his family has grown their dairy business over 4 generations.  You'll also get a chance to find out what Tyler likes to do when he's not working on the farm. 

Enjoy!