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The Office of Marketing and Communications services CALS faculty, staff and students by providing news and feature coverage of research, teaching and extension and outreach news. We write and edit a wide variety of content for the Cornell Chronicle as well as our college-wide publications, websites and social media platforms.

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If you are a member of the media seeking to contact a CALS researcher, staff member or student, please contact us at cals-comm [at] cornell.edu (cals-comm[at]cornell[dot]edu).

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Research guides apple growers beyond synthetic fungicides
Apple scab is one of the most economically devastating diseases facing apple growers in the Northeast. Managing it has long depended on regular applications of broad-spectrum synthetic multisite fungicides, but two new peer-reviewed studies from...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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Expanding Worker Ownership in Rural Small Business
Thousands of small businesses across New York State will undergo ownership transitions in the coming decade. Nearly 30,000 businesses employing more than 750,000 workers face potential closure or sale without succession plans in place. Rural...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Dairy Farm Business Summary Supports Financial Decision-Making
New York dairy farms face increasing pressure from volatile milk prices, rising labor, feed, and other input costs, and ongoing supply chain challenges. These factors limit profitability and make long-term planning difficult. Without accurate...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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New Research Forecasts the Impacts of Fire on Birds

New research from the USDA Forest Service, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and University of New Mexico identifies where future high-severity fires threaten biodiversity hotspots in the western United States using observations from bird watchers and...

  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate Change