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Our Impact

Our research, education and extension efforts are making a difference for New York's food and agricultural industries

Improving lives in New York state and beyond

Cornell AgriTech has a vision of excellence for the New York farm and food economy. Success starts in our research laboratories and fields, and then culminates with the transfer of knowledge to producers and processors across the state and beyond. We support New York's farm and food businesses by developing and delivering practical solutions that help them thrive.

Bolstering New York’s farm and food economy

Learn how Cornell AgriTech transforms the food system through innovative research, technology, and educational programs to benefit the people, the environment, and the economy of New York state and beyond.

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16 new fruit and vegetable varieties released in last five years

  • 5 apples
  • 7 tomatoes
  • 1 raspberry
  • 2 strawberries
  • 1 grape
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Cornell Berry Research Program

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Eastern Broccoli Project on track to meet $100M goal

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Holding Tomatoes

Cornell AgriTech's newest tomatoes are out of this world

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770 meetings, trainings and workshops in the past year

58,824 extension contact hours in the past year

99 extension-related publications in the past year

Success for New York's food and beverage industries

Cornell Food Venture Center

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Making a positive impact

Recent insights, breakthroughs, news and other AgriTech stories

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

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
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