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Two Cornell student teams – a cookstove fuel/biochar group and the AguaClara water filtration project – won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s prestigious People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award June 19. With about 45 teams in the competition, Cornell was the only school with two of the seven winning teams.  Congratulations! Read the full Cornell…Continue Reading Two student teams win coveted EPA prize

AURORA, N.Y. — Cornell Cooperative Extension hosted a small grains management field day at the Robert Musgrave Research Farm on June 6. Read the full article from Lancaster Farming…Continue Reading Researchers Talk Small Grains at Field Day

If you’re looking for an unusual tourist spot this summer, consider Cornell’s garden of “weedin’.” The Cornell Weed Garden is a scientific utopia that features 85 of the Northeast’s most tenacious, loathsome and frustrating plants known to farmers and home gardeners, but sometimes surprisingly tasty to naturalists. Read the full Cornell Chronicle….Continue Reading Tour allure: Enjoy Cornell’s “garden of weedin”

A new tool helps farmers feed crops only as much as they really need. The free Web-based tool, Adapt-N, draws on local soil, crop and weather data – including high resolution climate data stored at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell – to provide better estimates of nitrogen fertilizer needs for corn, in real…Continue Reading New tool helps farmers nip nitrogen losses

Congratulations to Thea Whitman on being selected as an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences this year.  Teaching Assistants make an important contribution to our instructional program, and we are pleased to have this opportunity to recognize Thea’s distinguished performance in this vital role. All recipients and guests were…Continue Reading Thea Whitman recipient of the 2013 CALS Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award