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Local Agriculture & Land Use Leadership Institute was awarded for its impact, response to community need and collaboration.

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periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Orange is the new hot color when it comes to nutrition and human health. And thanks to agricultural economist Jan Low, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’94, and her efforts introducing the orange-fleshed sweet potato into...

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To streamline the breeding of five staple crops—wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea—the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Cornell $18.5 million for a project that will put modular, open-source breeding software resources into the...

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