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AgriTech News & Events

Events

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Field Day

2026 Cornell Grain & Fiber Hemp Field Day
September 15, 2026 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (including lunch) Please join the Cornell Hemp Research and Extension Team for our 10th Annual Hemp Field Day at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva. We will present recent results on animal feeding trials using...
  • Cornell Agritech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Webinar

Fall clean-up for your flower and vegetable beds | Leaf piles and ticks
Removing plant material from vegetable beds can reduce future pest issues, but leaving plants in flower beds can help beneficial insects. Learn best management practices for both types of beds, and what you should do to reduce your risk of...
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • What's Bugging You?
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Class

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Virtual Better Process Control School - Acidified Foods
Register for our next class October 26 - 27, 2026 This course covers the training requirements for facilities manufacturing shelf stable foods using Mild Thermal Processes, such as acidified foods and Water Activity Controlled Foods. Upcoming...
  • Food Science
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Workshop

Juice HACCP Certification Course November 5, 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

Emerald Ash Borer Biocontrol Update
Parasitoid wasps have been released in NY to combat the invasive emerald ash borer. Is it working? About our "What's Bugging You?" series Each month at New York State Integrated Pest Management's "What's Bugging You? First Friday" events...
  • 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

Undergrad’s summer grape research cultivates future plans
Mirielle Sherman leaned over her scientific poster, making a few final adjustments before presenting her work at Cornell AgriTech’s Summer Research Scholars symposium in July. Photographs of grapevines covered the poster. Some showed cameras...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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News

NY pesticide ban: Growers and Cornell work to protect crops, pollinators
Preliminary Cornell research on managing the dreaded seedcorn maggot is giving hope to growers across the state ahead of New York’s 2029 ban on neonicotinoid pesticides in field crops: Side-by-side farm trials of neonic-treated vs. untreated...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Agriculture
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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