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Members of the Bad Bees for Business team pose with their product before their pitch at the 2023 Food Hackathon held at Stocking Hall.

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Food Hackathon students turn their ideas into delicious reality

Entrepreneurial Cornell students compete in the annual food hackathon, but then what? Their prototypes gain new ways to become reality.

  • Food Science
  • Food
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Cornell training program aims to boost NYS food entrepreneurship

A new Cornell-led training program aims to provide New York food educators and producers with the skills and equipment they need to boost compliance with modern food safety standards and foster the development of innovative food products.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Dairy processors seek workers to power growth

$3 billion in recent private investments in dairy manufacturing have supercharged the need for companies to find new workers. Cornell is helping with extension trainings and bootcamps.

  • Dairy Food Extension
  • Food
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Field Note

Refining RuFaS: Predictions are only as good as the data behind them
Haowen Hu ’26 is a doctoral student in the Animal Science Department working under the supervision of Kristan Reed, former Animal Science faculty member and the scientific director of the RuFaS project. His main research focuses on the Ruminant...
  • Animal Science
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Dairy
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Bird flu persists in raw milk cheese

Raw milk cheese products contained infectious avian influenza virus when made with contaminated raw milk, creating potential health risks for consumers.

  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Disease
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