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Agriculture News

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News

Corn-shaped seed pellets to boost habitat for monarchs, bees

Cornell innovation allows growers to use corn seed planting machines to plant strips of milkweed or wildflowers next to their fields.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Entomology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
A bumblebee on campus

News

An antidote to pesticide poisoning in bees shows promising early results in tests done with common eastern bumblebees.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Department of Entomology
  • Agriculture
Man in a neon work vest smiling at the camera holding equipment in a field.

Field Note

First generation Puerto Rican Francisco J. López Núñez attends the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez. He was selected for the Sustainable Management of Agricultural Systems (SuMAS) internship program, which connected him with the Cornell...
  • Field Crops
  • Soil
Student organizes buckets

Field Note

As a Laidlaw scholar , Jensen Njagi ’25 spent the summer doing community-based translational research in his home country of Kenya. As a Global Development major, Jensen is driven by a purpose to improve community health while considering the...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture
  • Environment
A biohybrid robot

News

Cornell researchers discovered a new way of controlling biohybrid robots that can react to their environment better than their purely synthetic counterparts: harnessing fungal mycelia’s innate electrical signals.

  • Agriculture
  • Soil
  • Crops
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Events

portrait of Clarence Swanton

Seminar

Brawling weeds and the fight for crop survival
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • Weed Science
  • Field Crops
Giulia Guidi

Seminar

Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS) Seminar Speaker: Giulia Guidi Date and Time: August 27 from 12:20 pm to 1:10 pm EDT Location: 135 Emerson Hall and on Zoom Abstract: The use of massively parallel systems continues to be...
  • Computational Biology
  • Plants
  • digital agriculture
Student pets goat at Art of Agriculture

Exhibit

Join Sigma Alpha, professional agricultural sorority, on the Arts Quad to learn more about agriculture! Experience student groups, research labs, and agricultural outreach organizations representing a wide array of opportunities and careers in...
  • Animal Science
  • Dairy
  • Animals