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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.

We coordinate with the Cornell Office of Media Relations to distribute news releases and tip sheets for reporters and other entities. We also assist journalists who request information or interviews of CALS' personnel.

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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Field Note

California Study Trip gives insight into modern agriculture's complexity
by Harley Wolfanger '28 Where does our food really come from? That question followed our group throughout our agricultural expedition to California this past January. I decided to embark on this trip because I wanted to understand how the...
  • Dairy Fellows Program
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
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News

NYS 4-H Livestock Ambassadors enjoy hands-on industry experience
The New York State 4-H Livestock Ambassador Program recently offered an immersive, multi-day educational experience for youth participants, providing hands-on exposure to New York’s diverse livestock industries. The program began with a visit to...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
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News

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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Report

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