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Cornell’s Milk Quality Improvement Program has awarded Stewart’s Dairy in Saratoga Springs top honors in New York state’s annual fluid milk competition, conducted on behalf of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets. The Cornell...
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Cornell’s bite-size frozen fruit smoothie pieces with crunchy yogurt coatings earned the top prize this summer at the virtual 2020 Institute of Food Technologists’ (IFT) Student Association & Mars Product Development national competition....
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Since requesting proposals in April, the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability has awarded approximately $250,000 in rapid-response grants for COVID-19-related Cornell research. With the final 10 awards announced, the center has now funded...
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Thanks to a grant from the NYS Department of Ag and Markets, Ag Educator Ariel Kirk and her team were able to develop a do-it-yourself container garden kit with all the necessary components and supplementary support materials, and then...
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The 65-page report, New York Agriculture and Climate Change: Key Opportunities for Mitigation, Resilience, and Adaptation, provides a scientific assessment of opportunities and barriers supporting climate adaptation and mitigation practices on...
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Findings will inform the World Health Organization’s (WHO) international guidelines on breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Saurabh Mehta and Julia Finkelstein, both associate professors in Cornell’s Division of Nutritional Sciences...
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Program will offer webinar series, continue other activities in response to pandemic In response to the COVID-19 health crisis, LEAD New York has decided to pause the start of seminars for the 2020–2021 year. Executive director Larry Van De Valk...
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U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi, a New York Democrat, met Aug. 10 with farmers and agricultural thought leaders – including Kathryn Boor ’80, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – for a farm tour and roundtable...
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An ambitious health food startup is making an innovative entry into the nutritious snack market, thanks in part to a multi-year collaboration with the Cornell Food Venture Center (CFVC) and the New York State Center of Excellence for Food and...
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“Are we taxing America so that people with second homes on the water don’t have to pay as much?” asked Brian Rahm, director of the New York State Water Resources Institute in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Rahm is a co...
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The five-county region of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, and Steuben Counties relies on an estimated $601 million in agricultural product sales to fuel the local economy. Eighty percent of those dollars come from the dairy, livestock...
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Green is majoring in Animal Science, and Miller is majoring in International Agriculture and Rural Development. The Cargill Global Scholars Program is a distinctive international scholarship initiative that began in 2013, and it offers a...
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As COVID-19 disrupts food systems around the world, a pivot to more agile and inclusive data collection and analysis is critical to avert widespread hunger, according to Cornell Global Development experts in a comment piece published Aug. 5 in...
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Art DeGaetano, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, is one of nine scientists who have co-authored a report to help the nation’s farmers, producers and commercial agricultural managers reduce risk in the face of climate change. “We...
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In one corner: the Bullock’s oriole, found in the western half of North America. In the other corner: the Baltimore oriole, from the eastern half. Where their ranges meet in the Great Plains, the two mix freely and produce apparently healthy...
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Houlton’s five-year appointment, effective Oct. 1, has been approved by the Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and is pending ratification by the State University of New York Board of Trustees. He also has been...
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After earning a Cornell doctoral degree in agricultural economics at age 45, Lee returned to Taiwan, where he was appointed to a number of governmental positions, including the mayor of Taipei (1978-81) and the provincial governor of Taiwan...
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