Rensselaer County Soil & Water Conservation District

Soil & Water has partnered with Cornell Cooperative Extension and has welcomed Amanda as an intern. As part of the partnership, she is working on a 4H Career Exploration project and also becoming part of the USDA NRCS Earth Team!

June is Dairy month. Having grown up on a dairy farm and spending a good deal of my adult life operating it, I have a deep respect for the men and women who hel...p produce nature’s most perfect food here in Rensselaer County. From supporting dairy promotion events like the Rensselaer County Dairy Princess, to working on farmland preservation, to investing in our roads and infrastructure to help farmers get their crops in and goods to market, working to help ensure our farmers in Rensselaer County are put in the best possible position to be competitive on an ever-increasingly global market has been a top priority of mine. It’s work I seek to continue to do as Schodack Supervisor. Holding the line on spending and taxes, ensuring protections through right-to-farm laws stay in place, and standing up to an ever increasingly hostile environment in NYS that only punishes our farmers and hurts their ability to compete. Schodack has a long and proud farming tradition, and it’s my honor to continue that on both our farm and in my work as an elected official.

Today, Soil & Water assessed a pond due to concerns of too much overgrowth of vegetation. Unfortunately, aquatic invasive species (AIS) were identified to be growing in the pond, including Curly leaf pondweed and Water chestnut. Now that the landowners know the type of species, they can move in the right direction in reducing the AIS growth in efforts to restore the habitat.