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Fall 2020

What Keeps a Farmer Up at Night?

Usually that answer would be simple, grow a safe high-quality product for your vendors, while fulfilling all of your contracts at a fair price. This has become far from simple with the advent of Covid-19. Life as we have known it has changed over the last few months. As a cold March gave way to spring, I speculated how Covid-19 would affect the crop of 280,000 Bushels of apples we had set out to grow. This led to the question, how will the virus affect the industry as a whole?

What single trait drives research?

February 22, 2017

I wish to challenge your opinion on a subject. If I asked you to tell me the single most important trait that drives all research what would you select? ... more

Time to look into the TEA Leaves about labor in 2017

January 5, 2017

Hard to believe that we have begun yet another year. Last year will be easy for most of you to let go as it was one of extreme drought and weak markets. As a result, each operation has to self- ... more

Crop Insurance time is upon us?

October 1, 2016

By Paul Baker, NYSHS Executive Director Very soon each of you will have to decide to invest or not in the 2017 crop insurance program. In many ways it seems unfair in that we have not even gotten a clear ... more

What if?

September 1, 2016

By Paul Baker, NYSHS Executive Director Sept. 1, in my mind, marks the official beginning of our fruit harvest. Nationally and here in New York we are expecting another large crop. For the most part Mother Nature has been rather ... more