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AgriTech News & Events

Events

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Class

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In-Person Better Process Control School - Acidified Foods
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Better Process Control School Acidified (Mild Thermally Processed) Foods: In-Person July 23 - 24, 2026 CCE Jefferson County 203 North Hamilton St., Watertown, NY 13601 A registration fee of $480 per person covers the Acidified (Mild Thermally...
  • Food Science
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Field Day

Hop Growers Twilight Meeting
Join experts at Cornell AgriTech to learn about progress on breeding and evaluating new hop varieties and disease management. Cornell AgriTech Demonstration Hop Yard 3350 Gates Rd. Geneva, NY 14456 Event is free and open to the public. But...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • school of integrative plant science
  • Horticulture
An outdoor daytime event at a rustic, vertical-wood barn. A gravel pathway lined with rounded stones and blooming light-green hydrangeas leads towards the barn where people are gathered. To the left, guests walk on a grassy lawn featuring a white event tent in the distance, while a black canopy tent is set up beside the barn on the right under a clear blue sky.

Conference

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2026 Central New York Summer Cut Flower Conference
This event is designed to provide new and experienced cut flower growers with useful information and a time to learn from each other as well as the speakers and organizers. Tuesday, July 28: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday, July 29: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost:...
  • IPM
  • Harvest New York
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Workshop

Juice HACCP Certification Course August 4, 2026
Juice HACCP commonly refers to the use of HACCP plans to minimize food safety risks in the juice processing, packaging, and transportation industries. HACCP stands for Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point. Significant hazards for a particular...
  • Food Science
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Institute for Food Safety
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Webinar

Managing Spotted Lanternfly at Home
Spotted lanternflies continue to spread, and may be found in residential yards or on buildings. This session will offer tips to address lanternflies at home. About our "What's Bugging You?" series Each month at New York State Integrated Pest...
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • What's Bugging You?

Ongoing Events

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What's Bugging You? NYSIPM First Friday Series

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Eastern Viticulture and Enology Forum Webinar Series

News

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Field Note

Matthew Norman-Ariztia: Improving Cornell grapes
In this video, meet Matthew Norman-Ariztia, Ph.D. student in the Oravec Lab and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Matthew is helping shape the future of New York’s grape and wine industry by uncovering what growers and...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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News

East Coast broccoli lowers costs and risks from California drought

Expanding broccoli production on the East Coast and outside of California can help stabilize fresh produce supply chains that are vulnerable to water shortages.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Horticulture

Field Note

Kaitlin Diggins: Supporting organic melon production

Kaitlin is on a mission to make melon growing more sustainable. Growing a melon is not as simple as planting a seed and waiting for a sweet summer harvest. From tiny seedlings to the fruit on your picnic table, melons face nonstop pressure from...

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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News

Cornell researchers find a new way to grow mushroom protein
Food scientists at Cornell AgriTech have developed a liquid-fermentation process that grows protein-rich oyster mushroom mycelium in days rather than weeks and – in a first for the field – have shown that the fungus will thrive on a fatty acid...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Food Science
Edward Harbes IV planting a new apple orchard in 2014.

News

Long Island farm leverages Cornell research to adapt, expand

Harbes Farm on Long Island relies on a mutually beneficial collaboration with Cornell researchers, a partnership that has made the family’s three farms key destinations for Long Island agritourism.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management