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Our mission is to create future food and agriculture systems by working across disciplines to explore questions from all sides and translate our discoveries into practical solutions that help growers and businesses thrive.

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Recent insights, breakthroughs, news and other Cornell AgriTech stories

Eric Branch examines a beet with fellow grad student, Pratibha Sharma

Field Note

Graduate student Eric Branch: He’s got the beet
Growing up on his family’s vegetable farm in central Minnesota, Eric Branch had many positive interactions with extension programs, and this eventually led him to pursue extension as a career. Drawn by Cornell AgriTech’s long history of...
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  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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News

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Forte Protein postdoctoral research Imran Kahn, left, and CEO Kathleen Hefferon conduct work in their new laboratory space at the Center for Life Science Ventures business incubator.

News

Forte Protein – a new Cornell startup that grows commercial animal proteins inside agricultural plants – has joined the university’s Center for Life Science Ventures business incubator.

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