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  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Global Development Section
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
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  • Soil
Microbes are by far the most important factor in determining how much carbon is stored in the soil, according to a new study with implications for mitigating climate change and improving soil health for agriculture and food production.

Microbes are by far the most important factor in determining how much carbon is stored in the soil, according to a new study with implications for mitigating climate change and improving soil health for agriculture and food production.

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Technician Ben Aliperti loads a string of hop vines into the hop harvester to pick off the cones at Cornell AgriTech.

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The Cornell Hop Breeding Program aims to give New York growers and brewers cultivars suited to the state's climate and disease pressure.

  • Horticulture Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Cornell AgriTech
Prototype robot harvesting apples

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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.

  • Food
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering