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people in tractor

Field Note

The Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) works with farmers, farm advisors and state agencies to conduct research and advise on the nutrient management of field crops across New York State. This summer, the program welcomed Dairy...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
Corn plants

News

Corrine Brown ’23 is a rising senior majoring in agricultural sciences, with an emphasis in business management and a minor in soil science. She transferred from SUNY Morrisville after her sophomore year to pursue her passion in agricultural...
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Climate Change
students visit farm

Field Note

Benjamin Yeh ’22 is a Statistics major with a minor in Computer Science and Celia Walden ’22 is a Biometry and Statistics major. What do they have in common? Having no prior experience with agriculture, Yeh and Walden spent the last year working with the Cornell Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) where they dove into the rapidly expanding field of digital agriculture.
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture

News

Subhashree Navaneetha Srinivasagan was recently awarded one of four Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellowships. The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellowships provides a rich training environment...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
corn field

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  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Soil
Mikala working with a bail

Field Note

Mikala Anderson ’23 is majoring in agricultural sciences with a concentration in education and society at CALS. For the past two summers, she has participated in a summer internship at the Delaware County office of Cornell Cooperative Extension, first as a Cornell Cooperative Extension summer intern and last summer as part of the Dairy Sustainability Key Performance Indicator Project overseen by Quirine Ketterings, professor of nutrient management and director of the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) in the Department of Animal Science. Here, Anderson shares her love of agriculture, and how her time in CALS has shifted her career plans and her perspectives.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Animal Science
NMSP team at SUNY Morrisville

Field Note

This past spring, undergraduate students at SUNY Morrisville in Dr. Jennifer Gilbert Jenkins’ Soil Fertility course connected classroom knowledge about soil health and sustainability with actual farm assessments. They utilized the Nutrient Mass...
  • Animal Science
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
Lydia and NMSP team

Field Note

On December 17th, 2021, Lydia Young graduated from SUNY Morrisville with a focus on dairy management and agricultural mechanics. Throughout the summer and fall semester of 2021, Young participated in an internship program with the Nutrient...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
Megan Wittmeyer ’22

Field Note

Agricultural science major, Megan Wittmeyer ’22, spent the summer completing a joint internship between the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP), run by Quirine Ketterings, professor of nutrient management in the Department of Animal Science...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Animal Science

Field Note

Scientific change is advanced when the public is informed, so we’ve asked faculty and staff across the department to share their most pressing messages.

  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
Megan Lamb ’22 at the The William H Miner Agricultural Research Institute

Field Note

Megan Lamb ’22, an agricultural sciences major, participated in a joint summer internship program between the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) and the William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute. Lamb’s internship was made possible...
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Animal Science
Agustin Olivo presenting at the annual meeting

Spotlight

  • Animal Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
Quirine Ketterings, Olivia Godber, Agustin Olivo and the owners of Whey Street Dairy inspecting cover crops.

News

A $500,000 grant from Chobani to Quirine Ketterings, professor of nutrient management in the Department of Animal Science in Cornell CALS and director of the Cornell Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP), will allow continued development of...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
Dairy farm in upstate NY

Field Note

What are the goals of the NMB curriculum? Olivo: It is important to engage youth in different aspects of agriculture and sustainability. Growing awareness about sustainability among new generations is very relevant to getting them interested in...
  • Animal Science
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
Quirine Ketterings standing in front of a poster outside speaking into a microphone

News

The funding aims to help the U.S. dairy industry become carbon neutral while supporting farmers’ livelihoods and will measure greenhouse gas emissions at a working New York dairy.
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Planet

Spotlight

Millions of times each day, New Yorkers turn on the faucet, relying on water supplied from about 125 miles away in the Catskill Mountains. Cornell CALS expertise keeps the award-winning water pristine.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture