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Field Note

A holistic approach to food system sustainability
by Jackie Swift Jasmine Dillon, assistant professor of global livestock sustainability, will be the first to tell you that animals are an important part of a sustainable food system. But, they will hasten to add, animals are not the only...
  • Food
  • Animal Science
  • Environment
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News

U.S. dairy production has continued its decades-long consolidation into fewer, larger operations [. Recent news coverage has suggested that the growth in anaerobic digester adoption over the past decade may have encouraged this expansion...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • PRO-DAIRY
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Report

This September 2026 Dairy Market Watch report from Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY examines component production, pricing, and utilization trends in the Northeast Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO #1) compared to national averages. Component production...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Field Note

Tucked away across the street from Frank Morrison Hall, in an unassuming greenhouse on the Cornell University Ithaca campus, live a school of tilapia: a freshwater fish eaten around the world. Their home consists of a row of giant aquarium tanks...
  • Animal Science
  • Fish
  • Animals
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News

So why New York, and why now? New York has been experiencing a quiet revolution over the past quarter century. This has not only kept the state on the map in terms of continuing to be a leading dairy state but also appears to have seeded a surge...
  • Dairy
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Animal Science