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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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Sustainable farms need an effective workforce led by managers with strong leadership skills. We developed an intensive supervisory development program composed of online learning that leads to a certificate.
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This fact sheet authored by PRO-DAIRY forage systems specialist Joe Lawrence was shared in the September 2025 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. The 2025...
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The Urban Agriculture and Civic Engagement Project addressed the need for enhanced civic engagement and STEM learning among youth through urban agriculture in New York City. Recognizing the potential of urban agriculture to foster students’...
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Farm to school programs in K-12 schools and early care and education sites engage young people in hands-on learning and empower school nutrition professionals to source and promote healthy, local food for school meal programs. Program design...
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Purpose Introducing projects focused on nutrition and healthy living in youth community programming is crucial in combating the prevalence of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke in adulthood. CUCE-NYC has addressed this need by implementing the...
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The Cornell Climate Stewards Program trains NYS residents on the science, impacts, and solutions to climate change – so that they can support municipalities taking part in NYS Climate Smart Communities – and helps residents plan and implement...
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White-tailed deer significantly impact seedling growth and forest regeneration in much of the eastern United States. Regeneration data are only collected at 20% of field sites annually by US Forest Service staff and are not useful for setting...
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This fact sheet authored by PRO-DAIRY forage systems specialist Joe Lawrence was shared in the August 2025 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. The challenges...
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PRO-DAIRY business management specialists Jason Karszes, Lainey Koval and Mary Kate MacKenzie shared these reports in the August 2025 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and...
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A case study on the importance of terminology: A canned beverage producer received and used cans from a supplier without issues over multiple months of storage. However, without warning, several runs of cans in 2024 showed evidence of hydrogen...
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