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Relevance Nitrogen is essential for crop production, yet excess application can contribute to nitrogen loss with impact on water and air quality. New York dairy farmers face increasing pressure to improve nutrient use efficiency while...
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Relevance Thousands of small businesses across New York State will undergo ownership transitions in the coming decade. Nearly 30,000 businesses employing more than 750,000 workers face potential closure or sale without succession plans in place...
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Relevance New York dairy farms face increasing pressure from volatile milk prices, rising labor, feed, and other input costs, and ongoing supply chain challenges. These factors limit profitability and make long-term planning difficult. Without...
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Relevance Hard cider has emerged as a significant economic driver for apple growers, family farms, and agritourism, yet limited availability of suitable cider apple cultivars has constrained industry growth. Many U.S. cider producers rely on...
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Relevance Lawns cover millions of acres across the United States and represent one of the most intensively managed land uses in residential and urban environments. Traditional high-input lawn care relies heavily on fertilizers, herbicides, and...
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Relevance Many young people today experience limited access to nature-based learning, reducing opportunities to build science literacy, leadership skills, and environmental awareness. Educators have expressed a need for engaging, hands-on...
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This update was released in the February 2026 issue of PRO-DAIRY's e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. Monitoring the performance of your dairy business on a regular...
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Relevance The NYS Fair Workforce Milk Bar program provided valuable workforce training and employment opportunities for forty Central New York teens, offering them hands-on experience and insights into the agricultural sector's role in the state...
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Relevance The NYS Corn Pest Monitoring Network project conducted a thorough evaluation of stakeholder requirements utilizing an online survey, revealing that black cutworm and true armyworm were identified as particularly detrimental pests...
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Relevance Hydroponics (soilless plant production) and aquaponics (production of fish and plants) are emerging sectors in New York State and across the U.S. which produce fresh, local produce and protein. Fish production produces large volumes of...
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Relevance Cornell Cooperative Extension's Urban Agriculture program provides support for urban agriculture education in all urban areas of New York State including the five boroughs of New York City. The major emphasis areas are: growing for...
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Relevance In New York, farms cover about 20% of the total land area, with field crops and vegetables occupying a significant portion (49% of NY’s farmland; about $1.9 billion annual value). Cornell University's plant breeders play a crucial role...
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Relevance The Program for Research on Youth Development and Engagement (PRYDE) project under the direction of Dr. Anthony Burrow, Director of PRYDE and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR) in the College of Human Ecology...
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Relevance The Sanitation Verification Efficacy project addresses the problem of controlling cross-contamination during food manufacturing, highlighting the challenge of verifying sanitation efficacy. The project led by Abigail Snyder, Cornell...
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Relevance Deer have exceeded the carrying capacity in most forested landscapes of NY and the Northeast. This has resulted in widespread failure of forests to regenerate as diverse and productive young forests that are necessary for multiple...
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Relevance CCE Tioga and Cornell University's School of Integrative Plant Science partnered to conduct research on the viability of growing rice on dry land. Several different rice varieties were planted and tended at CCE Tioga's Hilltop...
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Hired labor plays a significant role on dairy farms, with more than 9,000 jobs provided by New York dairy farms in 2019. As farm size grows, hired employees provide a larger percentage of the labor required to operate the farm. In 2021, authors...
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The 2024 business year was a higher earnings year on average across New York dairy farms that participated in the Dairy Farm Business Summary (DFBS), as noted in the 2024 DFBS Progress of the Dairy Farm Report. Strong milk prices and component...
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We are thrilled to announce that Cornell Landscape Architecture has been named a finalist for the Ribas Piera International University Prize 2025, part of the 13th Barcelona International Landscape Biennial. The award ceremony will be held on...
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Co-authored by the Cornell Turfgrass Program, the New York Golf Economic & Environmental Impact Report documents how the state’s golf courses provide both recreational and ecological values. The in-depth analysis tracks environmental protection...
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