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Prototype robot harvesting apples

News

Cornell leads project putting robots to work in US orchards

A Cornell-led research project is developing robots that can perform labor-intensive orchard operations; it’s supported by a four-year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Research Initiative.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Agriculture
  • Food
a man holds a vial of liquid and talks with another man in a white lab coat in a barn

News

Cows depend on microbes to live. Thousands of different species inhabit the rumen, the largest section of a cow’s four-section stomach. They ferment the grass that cow eats and extract nutrients, providing metabolites essential for the cow to...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Microbial biology
Matthew LeRoux (right), Cornell extension associate and founder of MeatSuite, talks with MeatSuite-user Bill Morse of Bottomland Farm at the East Hill Plaza Farmers’ Market on Aug. 19.

News

The free website, called MeatSuite, helps customers find local meat producers and estimates the costs and savings of buying meat in bulk.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food
A group of people stand together in front of the facility at the Miner Institute.

Field Note

Abby White, Agricultural Sciences, Cornell CALS ‘29 and Candyce Lee, Agricultural Engineering, University of Arkansas Pine Bluff ‘27, joined the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) as interns this summer. Candyce was hosted jointly through...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Dairy
Worker bees on a frame of honeycomb.

News

Strict regulations have prevented continental U.S. beekeepers from participating in the lucrative organic honey market, but new findings could provide evidence to open organic markets to U.S. producers.

  • Entomology
  • Food
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