Let’s Talk Ticks: What Every Livestock Producer Needs to Know

The rising number of ticks in New York along with a new tick in town is raising the stakes for livestock farmers. More ticks in more places increases your risk of tick encounters and the disease-causing pathogens they inject during their blood meal. Cornell Cooperative Extension Livestock Program Work Team Presents Let’s Talk Ticks: What Every Livestock Producer Needs to Know Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM. This is a live hybrid event, there will be an in person watch party at 14 counties across the state, with our speaker joining be via zoom.

Joellen Lampman, Community IPM Extension Support Specialist from the NYS Integrated Pest Management Program will discuss what we know about the impacts of ticks and tick-borne diseases on livestock in New York, steps being taken to learn more, and what we might do to mitigate risks for our stock and ourselves. Attendees will receive a Don’t Get Ticked New York kit for their farm. Kits contain tick removal equipment and identification cards.

If you would like to attend, please contact one of the host counties below to register.

Lynn Bliven lao3@cornell.edu - Allegany https://allegany.cce.cornell.edu/
Linnea Marie Depue lmm333@cornell.edu - Broome https://ccebroomecounty.com/
Richard R Toebe rrt43@cornell.edu - Delaware https://www.ccedelaware.org/
Justin W. Tucker jwt93@cornell.edu - Franklin https://franklin.cce.cornell.edu/
Ashley Lynn Schoenborn als543@cornell.edu - Greene https://ccecolumbiagreene.org/
Abigail Edith Jantzi aej48@cornell.edu - Jefferson https://ccejefferson.org/
Mellissa M. Spence mms427@cornell.edu - Lewis https://ccelewis.org/
Kenneth Glenn Estes, Jr kge7@cornell.edu - Livingston https://ccelivingstoncounty.org/
Marylynn Mattison-Collins mrm7@cornell.edu - Oneida https://cceoneida.com/
Rachel Moody ram72@cornell.edu - Rensselaer https://rensselaer.cce.cornell.edu/
Nicolina Venice Foti nvf5@cornell.edu - Saratoga https://ccesaratoga.org/
Kelly Ann Jackson kaj99@cornell.edu - Tioga https://tioga.cce.cornell.edu/
Graham Savio gs695@cornell.edu - Tompkins https://ccetompkins.org/
Nancy Glazier nig3@cornell.edu - Wyoming https://nwnyteam.cce.cornell.edu/event.php?id=2519

Let’s Talk Ticks is one of many programs offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension. New York Associations are part of the national cooperative extension system, an educational partnership between County, State, and Federal governments. As New York’s land grant university Cornell administers the system in this state. Cornell University Cooperative Extension provides equal program and employment opportunities.

 

Photo credit: New York State Integrated Pest Management

 

Lynn A. Bliven

Agriculture & Natural Resources Issue Leader

Cornell Cooperative Extension Allegany County

5435A County Rd 48

Belmont, NY 14813