Events

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Webinar

Cicadas & cicada-killer wasps | Feeding Friendly Insects: weed management
Cicada killer wasps are large insects that build solitary nests in the soil. While intimidating, people and wasps can coexist with a little understanding. As we move through summer, keep managing weeds in your perennial wildflower plantings...
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • What's Bugging You?
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Class

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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
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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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
Bottled Juice

Workshop

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

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

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
Assistant professor Ke Wang and postdoctoral associate Krishna Sahoo

News

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

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
Grower Humberto Hernandez evaluating a seed production field of Ursa Alta for Condor Seed on his farm in Yuma, Arizona.

News

Ursa Alta will supply material for multiple product streams, including textiles such as denim, animal bedding and wall insulation.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Riley Harding works in an orchard.

Field Note

What kinds of leadership or professional skills have you gained through the fellowship that you think will matter in the ag industry? The backbone of the FFAR Fellows Program is to coach students on professional development skills to be leaders...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science