Update : Cornell Chronicle article: Cornell receives nearly $850,000 to improve specialty crops. From an October 15 news release from the New York State Dept. of Agriculture and Markets. “New York State Agriculture Commissioner ...
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A bevy of Cornell bred potatoes are featured in an Oct. 13 article in the New York Times. (See Stand Back, Yukon Gold: There’s a New Potato in Town.) Researchers at Cornell University developed ...
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Excerpts from an article from the CALS newsroom, Home Grown: Cornell Dining Serves Up Locally Grown CALS Produce. Special thanks to Steve, Melissa and others who help get the food from the farm to ...
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Cornell Orchards has a bumper crop of wine grapes. Varieties include Finger Lakes Reisling, Seyval Blanc, Foch, Pinot gris, Chardonnay, Lemberger, Cabernet franc, Concord and a few odds and ends, mostly hybrids, that could ...
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The new cider press at Cornell Orchards pressed it’s first run of cider October 1. Sales of cider are slated to begin Saturday, October 3. See the Cornell Orchards website for hours, directions and ...
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Ron White wrapped up his 31-year career at Cornell September 23 by cutting the ribbon on a new office facility at Bluegrass Lane Turf and Landscape Research Facility. “When we started this project, I ...
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Round up of recent news items … “They’re no longer farming in a static environment,” says David Wolfe (right) in an article in a Sept. 4 story about the effects of climate change on ...
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An article in the Cornell Chronicle details Cornell’s first comprehensive tree inventory. Conducted this summer, the survey found that the campus’s 7,000-plus trees store millions of pounds of carbon and provide more than half ...
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Update : See also Cornell Chronicle article, Class-sized sod sofa satisfies whims, builds teams. Sod sofa in 60 seconds from Cornell Horticulture on Vimeo. Marcia Eames-Sheavly‘s Art of Horticulture class — with the assistance ...
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8/28/2009 news release from the New York Farm Viability Institute featuring High Tunnels project led by Chris Wien: The opportunity to extend New York’s growing season, and produce crops that are bigger, better looking ...
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