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Carly Bass is currently pursuing a Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in animal science through Cornell CALS. Read on to learn about Carly's career path and her progress toward completing her MPS capstone project before graduating this fall...
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Gretchen Wittmeyer, Cornell CALS agricultural science major ‘24, recently served as a Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) intern, learning about CCE and conducting soil research. Read on to learn about Wittmeyer’s internship experience. What led...
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Students in the TST BOCES New Visions Program can make the most of their senior year in high school by partnering with select Cornell University research and extension programs. Two Lehman Alternative Community School students, Cosmo Wessell and...
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Samuel Wallace is a senior studying agricultural engineering at North Carolina State University. He joined Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) as an intern this summer. Read about the focus of Wallace’s internship and discover...
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Chobani and Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) began a partnership in 2020 seeking to develop, test, and incentivize use of sustainability indicators for dairy farms. Recently, NMSP and PRO-DAIRY interns had the opportunity...
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Sunoj Shajahan is a research associate with Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP). With a background in agricultural engineering, he joined the NMSP team with the goal of eventually taking a faculty position. This fall, Shajahan...
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Noblehurst Farms , a seventh-generation, multi-family dairy farm co-owned by Rob Noble ’79, is helping shift the dairy industry toward greenhouse gas neutrality through an on-farm research partnership with Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear...
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Ben Polson ’23 and Shirley Zhang ’23 are graduating from CALS’ Biometry and Statistics major this May. While studying at Cornell, both explored digital agriculture opportunities with the Cornell Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP). Hear...
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Corrine Brown ’23 spent four semesters with Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP), collaborating on their dairy sustainability project. The Agricultural Sciences graduate now heads to Newtrient as a sustainability analyst, where...
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A new laboratory study discovered that mixing acid whey with manure can decrease ammonia loss, increasing the amount of nitrogen available to plants from manure while reducing odor. Manure naturally loses ammonia through a reaction called...
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In 2020 Chobani partnered with Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) to document dairy’s progress toward sustainability goals and help farmers further reduce the environmental impact of their farms. Hear from the researchers...
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A recent study aims to help dairy farmers increase feed quality and quantity by adding winter cereals to their crop rotations. Researchers examined the interaction between forage yield, quality and harvest timing for barley, cereal rye and...
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Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) is collaborating with research institutions and dairy farms across the U.S. to help the dairy industry move toward greenhouse gas reductions while improving soil health and climate...
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For over 20 years, Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program has helped dairy farms responsibly manage manure to meet crop nutrient needs while improving farm profitability and sustainability. Key to this success is the whole-farm nutrient...
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In 2022, Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) initiated on-farm manure evaluation studies to help farmers better understand the nitrogen value, yield and soil health benefits of manure for their farm. Learn more about the...
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Gurpreet Kaur discovered a passion for soil microbiology while studying at Punjab Agricultural University in India. She followed that passion to Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) where her Ph.D. focuses on the role of soil...
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Bhupinder Jatana , former postdoctoral research associate with the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP), found his way to Cornell after completing a Ph.D. at Clemson University . Now returning to Clemson, Jatana begins building his own lab...
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Will Salamone ’22 was first exposed to agriculture mowing the lawn of a neighboring dairy farm. Years later, a Cornell class in Whole-Farm Nutrient Management (ANSC4120) and a joint summer internship between the Nutrient Management Spear Program...
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Over the last 20 years, the Cornell Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) has worked with dairy farmers across New York state to employ research aimed at reducing agricultural operations’ environmental footprint.
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In 2022, five students from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez spent their summer at Cornell for an intensive internship with faculty from across the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
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