This guide provides information on the equipment and procedure to properly tube feed a small ruminant. The photo-forward format makes the steps easy to help ensure a successful experience. 

While frostbite is common in the Northeast, it's typically not life-threatening. However, it can be serious, affecting ears, feet, and tails of newborns as well as teats of does and ewes in milk. This article reviews prevention, symptoms, and management of frostbite.

For pigs that are kept outside or in non-heated shelters, managing heat loss can be a struggle. Pigs that can't keep warm have an increased number of health problems, reduced growth rates, and decreased reproductive performance. Understanding how pigs tolerate and adapt to cold temperatures can help us alter our management schemes to best meet their needs.

Lice can be a burdensome parasite, where affected animals can experience discomfort to the point of losing production. Learn about the thresholds and strategy for treatment in this article!

Beginning in 2022, ASI will grant a total of $15,000 with the goal of helping develop beginner and intermediate shearers and keeping them in the industry. Applications are due by January 15^th. Learn more about the Shearer and Mentor Grant here:

Cache Valley Fever is a mosquito-transmitted virus that causes infertility, abortions, stillbirths, and severe congenital abnormalities in sheep and goats. If you suspect that you have the Cache Valley Virus on your farm, please reach out to Amy Barkley to receive a questionnaire from Dr. Mary Smith to help understand the virus's prevalence in the Northeast.

Over the years, CCE has developed a series of picture-based and text-based resource guides for farms entering lambing and kidding season. These have been compiled from our Cornell websites, putting them all in one place and making them easier to find.

Do you practice silvopasturing? If so, you can help silvopasture experts develop their Northeast inventory of farms managing this way. Current and past producers are welcome to contribute!

The Spotted Lanternfly is in NYS, and tends to destroy vineyards, hopyards, orchards, and forests. If you see this insect or it's egg masses in winter (which look like smears of concrete), please contact NYS Ag and Markets or your local extension agent.

Proper handling and storage of vaccines both while that vaccine is in storage and is vital to their effectiveness. Without proper measures in place, the quality may diminish rapidly and/or the active ingredients may deactivate.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing up to $20 million to reimburse agricultural producers and handlers who are certified organic and crop and livestock producers who are transitioning to organic for eligible expenses incurred during fiscal years 2020, 2021, and/or 2022.

When bringing new animals into the herd of flock, there is always a potential to introduce diseases. Dr. tatiana Stanton describes common diseases to look out for, and details how to care for any new arrivals to the farm.