Book addresses future of local and global agri-food systems

Birds play an outsized, underappreciated role in shaping Earth’s chemistry, distributing nutrients across oceans, forests and coral reefs and sustaining life far beyond the nest, according to a new scientific review.

With hundreds of thousands of acres of corn in New York, it's crucial to support farmers’ efforts to optimize crop production. Yield varies in crop fields for many reasons, including soil fertility and topography. In a recent study, Cornell CALS...