Jason Karszes- Sr. Extension Associate
Email: jk57@cornell.edu
PRO-DAIRY's Dairy Farm Business Management Program
Cornell Dairy Executive Program
Current Responsibilities and Interests:Jason Karszes is a farm management specialist with the PRO-DAIRY Program at Cornell University. Jason began working for PRO-DAIRY in 1998, after working the previous seven years as the farm management educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension on the Erie-Wyoming Dairy-Livestock Team. He began working for extension in 1991, after he had completed his B.S. and M.S. degrees in farm management and production economics from Cornell University in 1989 and 1991.
His extension, teaching, and research efforts have centered on financial performance analysis and decision making programs for dairy farms and the use of Cornell’s Dairy Farm Business Summary and Analysis Program, working with a wide spectrum of dairy producers. Along with the whole farm financial analysis program, he has worked on developing management training programs for dairy producers and facilitates several business discussion groups centered on financial performance. With a focus on management training, he coordinates the Cornell Dairy Executive Program.
Jason has also spent time working in the fields of business expansion, personnel management, estate planning, and dairy replacement analysis.