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Jim Bittner ’80 inspects fruit on a tree

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Bittner-Singer Orchards, a 400-acre farm in Niagara County along the shores of Lake Ontario, looks like your average orchard but is also a site of cutting-edge Cornell research.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Food
Apple rootstocks pulled from the ground.

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An estimated 70 million trees are planted on Cornell AgriTech's Geneva rootstocks around the world – and that number is likely to grow with the release of three new rootstocks.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Horticulture
high density apple planting at Cornell Orchards

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At the 2021 joint meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) and the American Pomological Society (APS), Cornell apple researcher Terence Robinson was elected an ASHS Fellow, awarded the APS’s Wilder Medal and was co-author...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
Crates full of apples outside in autumn sunshine

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A Cornell-led, multi-institution team of plant scientists, university and private-sector engineers, economists and outreach agents seeks to use computer vision, automation and robotics to optimize per-tree apple production, which is currently a...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
man operating tractor-mounted Darwin string thinning machine

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Concerns about the banning of a plant-thinning chemical prompted New York apple producers, CCE educators and Cornell researchers to study a mechanical blossom-thinning alternative to carbaryl.