Given its proximity to new york city markets and agricultural land well suited to grass-based livestock production, new york's hudson valley has long been a region with promising potential to…

The Glynwood Center, Inc. was awarded a $151,524 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Regional Food System Partnerships (RFSP) program.

Glynwood Center will partner with Cornell University to engage the Hudson Valley Livestock Producer Group in identifying challenges facing the livestock sector in New York's Hudson Valley region. A project working group including representatives from the producer group will design and facilitate a feasibility study exploring production capacity, human resource needs, sales opportunities, processing and transportation infrastructure, and educational needs. The working group will evaluate the study data, make recommendations, and pursue future implementation funding. The grant aims to support planning and development of the regional food system through this partnership effort.

Given its proximity to new york city markets and agricultural land well suited to grass-based livestock production, new york's hudson valley has long been a region with promising potential to support growth in the livestock sector. This project builds upon the collective experience of the GLYNWOOD center for regional food and farming (GLYNWOOD) and the CORNELL university college of agriculture and life sciences (CORNELL) in serving the livestock industry. GLYNWOOD and CORNELL will partner to engage directly with the hudson valley livestock producer group, formed in 2020 by GLYNWOOD, to identify trade challenges and brainstorm strategies to address them. With support from rfsp, GLYNWOOD and the CORNELL cooperative extension livestock program work team will form a project working group, which will include representatives from the hudson valley livestock producers group. The project working group will design and facilitate a feasibility study to explore livestock sector: production and capacity, human resource needs, sales opportunities, processing, storage and transportation, educational opportunities and needs the project working group will evaluate the data, write recommendations, and pursue funding to enable future implementation of projects detailed through the study. While this project is regional in scope, IT is our hope that these efforts will be informative and catalytic to similar efforts elsewhere in the country.