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Addressing food loss and waste: A path to sustainable food systems

Field Note
  • Global Development Section
  • Food
  • Global Development
Pile of food scrap garbage
Field testing new soil treatments for sustainable forage production

… compaction.  In contrast, the SHMS includes no-till, dairy compost applied in the spring and a drilled rye cereal cover …

News
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Field Crops
  • Dairy
  • Soil
Jasdeep in a group with three other people sitting around a table looking at project paperwork.
Module 1 – Introduction to Produce Safety

Academic Staff: Soil & Crop Sciences

Yellow nutsedge

… plants are composted at low temperatures, the resulting compost can potentially spread the weed. Common natural …

Science and Technology

… the fertility of soils amended with different kinds of compost, invention of new products from sawmill or cheese …

Meg McGrath battles the 'pesto pest' basil downy mildew

… in an old plastic bag and put it in the trash (do not compost) so that spores don’t spread to healthy plants. You …

Spotlight
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Plants
  • Horticulture
  • Pathology
Basil leaves with orange between veins, symptomatic of basil downy mildew
Pest Exclusion

… Eliminate nearby food supplies: pet food, garbage, compost, and bird seed, should be kept in locations or …

2026 Central New York Summer Cut Flower Conference
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… includes upcycling municipal waste into nutrient-rich compost, carefully managing their farmlands to maintain …

Conference
  • IPM
  • Harvest New York
Dilmun Hill Student Farm

… are needed. Grow as you go: 'Peecycling' helps plants & compost thrive Recycling human waste for a more prosperous …