Cornell AES News

Rick Randolph in front of trees

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Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES) employee Rick Randolph has been chosen as the new manager of the Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm in Freeville, NY. He was selected from a pool of candidates by a...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Freeville Research Farm
  • Agriculture
field day attendees viewing solar panels corn crop and researcher with poster

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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
Rod Zeltmann standing in front of a field of pumpkins

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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
Cornell AES farm managers speaking with students

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Two long-time research farm managers — with a combined 70 years of dedication to Cornell — retired this year, after careers spent facilitating research that has strengthened New York’s food system and agricultural industry. Steve McKay, former...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Freeville Research Farm
  • Musgrave Research Farm