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Hans Walter Peterson inspecting grapes in a vineyard

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Hans Walter-Peterson, team leader and viticulture extension specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Finger Lakes Grape program, transformed a hobby interest in wine into a thriving career. Working in the Finger Lakes region of New...
  • Viticulture and Enology
Julio Giordano, professor of animal science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, shows dairy industry leaders a collar that can track cows' food intake, at the Cornell University Ruminant Center on June 30.

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On June 30, dairy industry leaders from New York state toured the Cornell University Ruminant Center, a one-of-a-kind testbed for new technologies and strategies and a crucial resource for the state's dairy farmers.

  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
Jenny Weil Malatras

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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
A woman pushes a device into the ground in a farm field.

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The effects of soil compaction on crop growth are often overlooked, especially compared to many other soil health indicators. In New York State, Kitty’ O Neil is determined to investigate its impacts on-farm. In recent years, scientists and...
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Climate Change
Smallmouth bass swimming underwater

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The bass rapidly evolved to grow faster and invest more in early reproduction in response to efforts to eradicate them.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Environment
  • Natural Resources
Cattle on a pasture

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Anyone who has walked through a barn or cattle pasture in the summer knows that flies are a nuisance and even a health hazard. Face flies can spread diseases like pink eye to cattle, and horn flies – biting flies that live on cows and take up to...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Dairy
Farmers attend demonstration of laser weeding machine.

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The study found that the laser weeders worked as well as common herbicides in test plots of East Coast peas, beets and spinach.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
Hands wearing gloves picks up a pile of wood debris off the ground

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Researchers project that burying the wood debris from managed forests could reduce global warming up to 0.76 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Climate Change
A bobcat sniffs a trail camera mounted by Cornell researchers, in collaboration with New York state.

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Snapshot NY aims to collect widespread data about animal populations throughout New York state - using thousands of trail cameras - and is engaging the public to aid the effort.

  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Animals
  • Nature
Toni stands in a shaded courtyard wearing a blue button-down shirt and glasses.

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Antonio DiTommaso has been named associate dean and director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. He succeeds Margaret Smith, who has served in Cornell AES leadership for 17 years.
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
field

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Supporting students and faculty to undertake research in the U.S., Africa, South Asia and Latin America, the Polson Institute of Global Development announced its spring 2025 grant winners earlier this month. “Never has support for development...
  • Polson Institute for Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
Adam Hughes

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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Mario addressing attendees at the Lake Ontario Fruit filed days

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Relationships and resilience at the root of CCE fruit specialist Mario Miranda Sazo's agricultural journey Mario Miranda Sazo's success in agriculture is a story of resilience and growth, spanning continents and challenges. Originally from Chile...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Campaign graphic for the McClintock Letters, featuring an illustration of Barbara McClintock

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In a nationwide campaign led by Cornell students, more than 500 scientists have committed to writing letters and op-eds in their hometown newspapers across all 50 states – each one a personal appeal on why public investment in research matters.

  • Communication
Solar panels floating on a pond

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Researchers project significant energy gains from using floating solar on just 3.5% of waterbodies in the Northeastern U.S., even with approaches that preserve biodiversity and recreation.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Biodiversity
Gray-headed Canary-Flycatcher

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New research finds that territorial behavior and diet help explain why some birds sing more often at dawn, challenging traditional theories about dawn choruses.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
Buffalo area 4-H program empowers teens, opens doors
The soft robotic leaf gripper injects leaves with sensors that help it detect and communicate with its environment.

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Cornell researchers have developed a soft robotic device that gently grips and injects living plant leaves with sensors that help it detect and communicate with its environment. The robot can also inject genetic material into the leaves.

  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plants
Petra Hafker looks at honey bees from a hive.

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Petra Hafker is a Ph.D. student of entomology in the lab of Christophe Duplais, associate professor of entomology at Cornell AgriTech. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, as an undergraduate student, Petra studied the invasive spongy moth at the...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Entomology
Summer on the Ag Quad

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  • Animal Science
  • Food Science
  • Animals