Update: 4/13/2010: See new post for 2010 season, Avoid the late blight blues. Update: 1/7/2010: Late Blight Q&A from the Northeast IPM Center. Update: 8/11/2009: New factsheet from NYSIPM program: Late Blight: A Serious ...
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In an article in the Ithaca Journal, Cool weather provides large, juicy berries at u-pick farms, Department of Horticulture chair Marvin Pritts (right) explains why this year’s strawberry crop is so good: ‘It always ...
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Update: 7/14/2009. From Marcia Eames-Sheavly: Join us at noon on Wednesday, July 22 on the patio adjacent to Kennedy Hall where Felder will give an impromptu presentation from his truck. This presentation is free ...
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Laurie Drinkwater is one of a group of 17 authors of Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development in the current issue of Science (324:5934). According to a Cornell Chronicle article, Midwest farmers overfertilized their corn ...
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Updated 9/22/2009: Look for the stand outside Mann Library every Tuesday from 3 to 6 p.m. through the growing season. (Rain location: Mann Library Lobby.) This week’s harvest includes: Salad Mix Kale Swiss Chard ...
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Lengthening the growing season in the June 19 Ithaca Journal extols the virtues of high tunnels. These unheated, metal-framed, plastic-covered structures allow growers in cool climates like New York to extend their harvest season ...
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In Next Generation of Vintners Ready to Pick, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle profiles Viticulture and Enology junior Ben Stamp and two CALS alumni as future leaders of the Finger Lakes wine industry. The ...
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Horticulture students head to Belize to show how gardens enrich schools (page down to second story) was one of the stories profiling projects demonstrating Cornell’s global impact in the Summer 2009 issue of Ezra, ...
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Michael Dosmann (PhD ’07), now curator of living collections at Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum, is one of the professionals featured in a series of videos by the Center for Public Horticulture. I wear 365 ...
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Thinking of getting into the wine and vine business? Check out the new New York Vineyard Site Evaluation System. This new online tool uses interactive layered maps showing climate, topography, soils, and minimum winter ...
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