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Cornell AgriTech's Digital Agriculture team, assistant professor Katie Gold, assistant professor Yu Jiang and graduate student Maylin Murdock testing a drone in a field.

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Bringing NASA technology 'down to earth' for agriculture
For more than 50 years, NASA and partner agencies have used satellite imagery to map agriculture worldwide with an eye toward global supply and food security. That technology, however, has largely focused on commodity and row crops. Until now...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Chris Smart giving an extension talk at a hemp field day event

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Christine Smart appointed director of Cornell AgriTech
Christine Smart, a crop pathologist known for her leadership in protecting the health of specialty crops across New York state, has been appointed the Goichman Family Director of Cornell AgriTech, effective Oct. 1. Olga Padilla-Zakour will...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Entomology
  • Food Science
Wheat graphic

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Borlaug Global Rust Initiative announces wheat award winners
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative announced the 2023 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career and Mentor awardees in recognition of excellence in science and leadership for a wheat-secure future.
  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Eric Branch examines a beet with fellow grad student, Pratibha Sharma

Field Note

Graduate student Eric Branch: He’s got the beet
Growing up on his family’s vegetable farm in central Minnesota, Eric Branch had many positive interactions with extension programs, and this eventually led him to pursue extension as a career. Drawn by Cornell AgriTech’s long history of...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
ryan maher in the field wearing cornell weed science tee shirt

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New organic leadership for Cornell AES
Ryan Maher, a research, extension, and soil health specialist for the Cornell Small Farms Program since 2013, has assumed a new leadership position as Organic Coordinator for the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES)...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section

Land Acknowledgment

Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York State, and the United States of America.  We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters.