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News

Three dairy innovators – lu.lu Ice Cream, Oakfield Corners Cheese LLC and Terra Firma Farm – were named winners of the inaugural Northeastern Dairy Product Innovation Competition following a pitch competition on Aug. 8 in Stocking Hall.

  • Food Science
  • Dairy
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News

In a rural part of upstate New York, students with access to school-based health centers received more medical care and missed less school, Cornell researchers found.

  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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Report

The 2023 growing season across NYS and the Northeast has thrown just about every weather scenario at us, making it hard to generalize any conditions across the state or region. However, as reports come in regarding the timing of tasseling, one...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
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Report

The final Progress of the Dairy Farm Report for the 2022 business year , written by PRO-DAIRY Farm Business Management specialists Jason Karszes and Lauren Augello, is released and represents the 67th year a summary of New York dairy financial...
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Debbie Grusenmeyer, PRO-DAIRY, and student graduates of Junior DAIRY LEADER

News

Enthusiasm was palpable at Junior DAIRY LEADER graduation, held in August on the Cornell campus at Morrison Hall. The day is a culmination of an intense year of hands-on learning, exposure to industry issues, networking, farm tours and travel...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
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News

Painter Kirsten Kurtz, MS ’21, manages CALS’ soil health lab—and turns leftover samples into works of art
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Soil
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News

Despite broad scientific consensus that climate change has more serious consequences for some groups – particularly those already socially or economically disadvantaged – a large swath of people in the U.S. doesn’t see it that way.

  • Department of Communication
  • Climate Change
  • Communication
Daniela Vergara working in a greenhouse with hemp

News

A new manual will provide guidelines for New York state growers of hemp – a crop with the potential to revitalize economies while revolutionizing industries from fiber to pharmaceuticals.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Communication
  • Plants
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News

More than 140 farmers, educators, consultants and researchers viewed the latest Cornell grain and forage crop research at 2023 Musgrave Research Farm Field Day in Aurora, N.Y., August 3. “As leaders in agriculture research, it’s really important...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Musgrave Research Farm
  • PRO-DAIRY
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News

City life favors species that display characteristics know as “urban trait syndrome,” including being adaptable and not too fussy about what they eat.

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
  • Behavior
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News

 Plant biologist Laura Gunn has been awarded a Department of Energy Early Career Award to study ancient enzymes for potential use in modern photosynthesis.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plants
Researchers place solar panels on the Cornell Experimental ponds

News

Steve Grodsky, assistant professor of natural resources, and a multidisciplinary team of researchers, soon will learn how solar panels placed on top of water bodies can affect the biology of aquatic systems.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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News

Research by J. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication in CALS, found that Reddit community members who fact-checked suspect stories led to those stories being dropped in the website’s rankings.

  • Department of Communication
  • Communication
  • Media
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Field Note

For over 30 years PRO-DAIRY has dedicated itself to one goal: To foster a progressive New York state dairy industry through its programming and leadership. Through results-driven education and research, PRO-DAIRY specialists have contributed to...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
Rod Zeltmann standing in front of a field of pumpkins

News

For 50 years, Rod Zeltmann has been preparing fields, fixing equipment, helping researchers and supporting the agricultural community through his work as a field assistant at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center (LIHREC)...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Long Island Research & Extension Center
  • Agriculture
Two people standing in corn field.

News

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...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
Kathleen Kanaley

Field Note

Kathleen Kanaley is a second-year Ph.D. student working in the lab of Katie Gold , professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology at Cornell AgriTech . Originally from San Francisco, Kathleen came to Cornell AgriTech after receiving her...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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News

Cornell researchers have successfully transferred key regions of a highly efficient red algae into a tobacco plant to dramatically improve plant productivity and increase carbon sequestration.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Field Crops
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News

Researchers are hoping a fly no larger than a grain of rice and a predatory beetle may work together to combat an invasive pest that is devastating hemlocks in Fall Creek and throughout eastern North America.

  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Entomology
  • Environment
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News

  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center