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Purpose Through targeted engagement with foresters, loggers, woodland owners, and agency partners, our comprehensive approach has effectively communicated the benefits and techniques of slash wall construction while highlighting their broader...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Harvesting Dryland Rice

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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...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
A jaguar stands in a stream in the jungle.

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A $1.8 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund will help the Cornell Lab of Ornithology develop acoustic sensors and artificial intelligence analytics to identify real-time threats to forests from illegal activities and provide insights into...

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
Birds eye view of  10, yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota.

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In a warming climate, extreme drought could trigger a dramatic release of carbon from peatlands, erasing up to 250 years of carbon stores in a matter of months.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Climate Change
Quantera founder Terry Bates, Ph.D. ’23, explains the operation of the startup's spectrometer to undergraduate interns Nick DeMayo ’26 and Alexis Sherman ’26, both from Cornell Engineering.

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Newly admitted into the Praxis Center business incubator, Quantera aims to improve scientific sample collection.

  • Food Science
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In September, Michelle Holeck (Administrative Assistant at CBFS) had the opportunity to attend the 60th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) in Gothic, Colorado. This gathering brought together members from...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
A dairy cow inside a barn

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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...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
A dairy cow inside a barn

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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...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Gerald Chan poses with two attendees of CALS Innovation Day

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AI-powered precision farming systems, smart insect traps for pest control and nutrient-enhanced crops were some of the projects showcased at the second CALS Innovation Day, hosted by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Research and...
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Microbiology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Extension support specialist Cynthia James leads a cooking demonstration

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A new Cornell-led training program aims to provide New York food educators and producers with the skills and equipment they need to boost compliance with modern food safety standards and foster the development of innovative food products.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
image of dairy workers in PPE standing outside a dairy plant

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$3 billion in recent private investments in dairy manufacturing have supercharged the need for companies to find new workers. Cornell is helping with extension trainings and bootcamps.

  • Dairy Food Extension
  • Food
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Aplin, a dedicated teacher and mentor whose research and extension work helped food producers, distributors and retailers improve their businesses, died Sept. 17 in Exeter, New Hampshire.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and long-time collaborator Environmental Defense Fund announce their 2025 awardees for joint research and seek new proposals for 2026 initiatives.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Sabine Paz-Le Draoulec headshot

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Sabine Paz-Le Draoulec ’26, an environment and sustainability major from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, spent her summer in Washington, D.C., with the United States Department of Agriculture through its Future Leaders in Public Service Internship...
  • Agriculture
  • Environment
ice sheets

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The timing of emissions reductions, even more so than the rate of reduction, will be key to avoiding catastrophic thresholds for ice-melt and sea-level rise, according to a new Cornell study.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
a man crouches in front of a line of dairy cows

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Haowen Hu ’26 is a doctoral student in the Animal Science Department working under the supervision of Kristan Reed, former Animal Science faculty member and the scientific director of the RuFaS project. His main research focuses on the Ruminant...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Digital Agriculture
Ribas Finalist

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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...
  • Landscape Architecture
Jason Londo examines a tree impact by extreme weather.

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As unpredictable weather continues to disrupt growing seasons, associate professor of horticulture Jason Londo is uncovering its deepening impact on apple orchards — from long-term tree decline to subtle changes in fruit finish that influence...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture
Diabetes testing kit

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Persista Bio aims to help the daily life of the 9 million people worldwide suffering from Type 1 diabetes.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Disease
Shelves of wheels of cheese.

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Raw milk cheese products contained infectious avian influenza virus when made with contaminated raw milk, creating potential health risks for consumers.

  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Disease