Photo by Ted Boscia/College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. From left, Vinay Pagay, Abraham Stroock and Alan Lakso examine a silicon wafer that will be used to build microsensors to monitor water stress in ...
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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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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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Once again, Department of Horticulture volunteers led by Marcia Eames-Sheavly set up flowers at venues all around campus graduation weekend. Special mention goes to the Saturday tear-down crew who got drenched in a sudden ...
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Watch out Big Apple and northern New Jersey. It looks like the viburnum leaf beetles (VLBs) are headed your way, if they’re not already in your neighborhood. Here’s what you can expect when larvae ...
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Tom Whitlow‘s work studying the effects of trees on airborne particulate pollution is one of the projects profiled in CALS Fights for Urban Well-Being in the Spring 2009 issue of CALS News. (Page down ...
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