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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” — Fred Rogers Cornell Cooperative Extension volunteers have been making a difference for...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Gagne graduated with a degree in horticulture and a specialization in controlled environment agriculture and recently landed an apprentice grower position at BrightFarms, a company based in the Hudson Valley. Controlled environment agriculture...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plants

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“While formula had everything she needed to thrive and grow, it didn’t have everything we wanted for her,” said Ippolito, a lecturer in the Engineering Management Program at Cornell. In summer 2019, she launched SimpliFed, a startup company...

  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Agriculture
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This project is no small undertaking. One of the challenges stems from the fact that broccoli was originally cultivated for Mediterranean climates, so growing it in the U.S. confuses the plant’s developmental cues. Broccoli flower buds and heads...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
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Now, as students complete the spring semester from off-campus locations, CALS’ efforts to make sure that they feel safe and supported are more crucial than ever. “It’s very important that a sense of belonging envelops our Cornellians who are now...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
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The course, Just Food: Exploring the Modern Food System, benefits from an interdisciplinary pair of instructors: Rachel Bezner Kerr, professor in the Department of Global Development, and Frank Rossi, associate professor of horticulture in the...
  • Food Science
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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But scientists are increasingly understanding that bogs are also crucial ecosystems in the fight against climate change: in some cases, bogs can actually sequester more carbon than rain forests. Bogs are an ecologically unique aquatic system...
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Organisms
  • Biodiversity
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And in the class Hands-On Horticulture for Gardeners, Professor Marvin Pritts has asked students to design their own experiments, such as determining whether music helps plants grow, or what the best method might be for propagating Pothos, an...
  • Horticulture
  • Microbiology
  • Communication
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  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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Fifty years on, Earth Day is more relevant than ever as the impacts of climate change are felt across New York state and the rest of the country. The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Environment
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One of our researchers is helping organic farmers in upstate New York start growing perennial grain crops, which can be planted once and will yield grain for multiple years — supporting commercial products such as breads, cereals, beer and whiskey.
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Food Science
  • Food
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Tidball, senior research associate in the Department of Natural Resources, in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, served as a consultant to members of the New York State Senate on the Outdoor Rx Act, a bill that seeks to make it easier...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Environment
  • Nature
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Alfredo Resendiz ’19, the first member of his family born in the United States and the first to go to college, developed a passion for agriculture through JDL. “These types of programs do have impact, especially within schools that have no...
  • Dairy Fellows Program
  • Animal Science
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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As events and businesses began to shutter last month in response to increasing concerns over the spread of COVID-19, so did Finger Lakes Harvest’s primary sales outlets. “We showcase our products at approximately 50 specialty shows and farmers...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Food
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Because there is no cure, HLB is a major threat to the $10 billion citrus industry in Florida, where it was first detected in 2005, and to the $7 billion industry in California, where it appeared last year. Researchers from the Boyce Thompson...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • Department of Entomology
  • Plants
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By using new tools to measure the levels of soil moisture in different climates, new Cornell research shows that even minor global warming could amplify drought hazards around the world.
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Plants
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Farms have many microbial risks, and in order to protect the fruits and vegetables grown and packaged on a farm, every grower needs to be able to identify and reduce those risks. Cornell’s new online Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training course complements an existing in-person course that, since 2016, has reached more than 56,000 individuals in all 50 U.S. states, territories and commonwealths and 32 other countries.
  • Food Science
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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For decades, researchers have tried to understand how plants biosynthesize cardenolides, knowledge that could help them discover and develop safer versions of the drugs. Unfortunately, the cardenolides’ best-known plant sources – foxglove and...
  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
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A Cornell plant disease specialist is teaming up with land managers and conservationists to teach dogs how to sniff out invasive species — hoping to catch pathogens before it's too late.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Disease
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In a special climate change issue of the Review of Financial Studies, nine new research papers – including two from Cornell – have staked new territory for scholarly study: finance sustainability. “There are many finance questions that pertain...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
  • Environment