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Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Biocontrol Update
Learn the current state of hemlock woolly adelgid biocontrol in NYS, and opportunities for you to be part of the solution. About our "What's Bugging You?" series Each month at New York State Integrated Pest Management's "What's Bugging You...
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • What's Bugging You?
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2026 Cornell Food Hackathon
The annual Cornell Food Hackathon convenes 150 undergraduate and graduate students from diverse disciplines — including food science, business, nutrition, engineering, design, and data science — to collaboratively explore the future of food...
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Emerald Ash Borer Biocontrol Update
Parasitoid wasps have been released in NY to combat the invasive emerald ash borer. Is it working? About our "What's Bugging You?" series Each month at New York State Integrated Pest Management's "What's Bugging You? First Friday" events...
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • What's Bugging You?
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Workshop

Juice HACCP Certification Course November 5, 2026
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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Crop Protection Network: Ten Years and Going Strong
The Crop Protection Network (CPN) is a collaborative network of university Extension specialists and researchers working to provide unbiased, research-based information that helps agricultural professionals make informed crop-management...
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Digital Agriculture
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Cornell Food Connections - Jefferson County
Are you an aspiring or early-stage food and beverage entrepreneur looking to grow your business and bring new products to market? Cornell Food Connections, a partnership among Cornell AgriTech, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Taste NY and the New...
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Dairy Farm Feeder School 2026
Presented by Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY and Cornell Cooperative Extension This one-day program provides on-farm training for dairy farm employees and managers who want to learn more about and improve the feeding process. Each site will feature hands...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • CCE
  • Dairy
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Virtual Better Process Control School - Acidified Foods
Register for our next class October 26 - 27, 2026 This course covers the training requirements for facilities manufacturing shelf stable foods using Mild Thermal Processes, such as acidified foods and Water Activity Controlled Foods. Upcoming...
  • Food Science
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Leveraging IPM and Conservation-Agriculture Practices to Improve Control of Invertebrate Pests in Corn and Soybean Production
Insects and slug pests can occasionally challenge crops in no-till systems, but these conservation-based systems have great potential to harbor populations of natural enemies that can help with pest control. Unfortunately, standard preventative...
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • conservation
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Workshop

Cornell Food Connections - Troy
Are you an aspiring or early-stage food and beverage entrepreneur looking to grow your business and bring new products to market? Cornell Food Connections, a partnership among Cornell AgriTech, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Taste NY and the New...
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Cornell Food Connections - Onondaga County
Are you an aspiring or early-stage food and beverage entrepreneur looking to grow your business and bring new products to market? Cornell Food Connections, a partnership among Cornell AgriTech, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Taste NY and the New...
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Fall clean-up for your flower and vegetable beds | Leaf piles and ticks
Removing plant material from vegetable beds can reduce future pest issues, but leaving plants in flower beds can help beneficial insects. Learn best management practices for both types of beds, and what you should do to reduce your risk of...
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • What's Bugging You?
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Lecture

Panel Discussion, Fall 2026 Lecture Series: How Can Landscape Architecture Have Actual Agency?
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with our discussion panel guests Michael Grove (principal of Sasaki), Karen Lutsky (assistant professor, Cornell), Matt McMahon (assistant professor, Cornell), and Emma Silverblatt (assistant professor...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape
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Cornell AgriTech + Hebenstreit Extrusion Expert Days
Join industry experts, researchers and food technology leaders for two days of presentations, demonstrations, pilot trials and discussions focused on extrusion technology. The workshop will feature pilot-scale trials of the Hebenstreit SE70...
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Growing with Plant Empowerment
Join us at Cornell University for a half-day Growing with Plant Empowerment Workshop, featuring internationally recognized experts from Europe who have helped growers apply Plant Empowerment principles to improve greenhouse crop performance and...
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Automatic Digital Classification for Insect Pests: Out of the Lab, and Into the Field
Monitoring the presence and density of insects, typically down to the level of sex, species and lifestage, is critical for optimizing interventions for agriculture, medical, veterinary and ecological applications. This seems like a natural...
  • machine-learning models
  • ai
  • Digital Agriculture
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Seminar

Why Food System Transformation Matters as a Global Development Priority
Fall 2026 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development and the Environment Seminar Series About the speaker For more than 30 years, Patrick Webb has been engaged in scholarship, teaching and outreach, advising...
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Seminar

Weaving Futures: Indigenous Knowledge, Conservation, and the Work of Collaboration
Fall 2026 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development and the Environment Seminar Series About the speaker Dr. Paige West holds The Claire Tow Professorship in Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University and...
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Cornell Food Connections - New York City
Are you an aspiring or early-stage food and beverage entrepreneur looking to grow your business and bring new products to market? Cornell Food Connections, a partnership among Cornell AgriTech, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Taste NY and the New...
  • Cornell Food Venture Center
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Mosquitoes are still active | Is that a bee?
What you need to know about mosquito biology and IPM as we head into fall. And how to tell the difference between a wasp and a bee...and why it matters. About our "What's Bugging You?" series Each month at New York State Integrated Pest...
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • What's Bugging You?