An Aug. 7 Cornell Chronicle article details ways planners and grounds staff are making Cornell landscapes more sustainable. “As Cornell becomes more sustainable — and cuts costs — Cornellians will see fewer lawns and ...
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The Cornell Soil Health Assessment Training Manual has been revised and updated, including new sections on soil textures and managing soil contraints, as well as to reflect changes in soil health scoring and assessment ...
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“The path that leads from inspiration to invention—and on to commercial success, if all goes well—can be a long and winding road.” The CALS communications office tells the stories of how some in the ...
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The Organic Research Farm at the Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research facility in Freeville, N.Y., will host twilight field days on two Mondays in August: Organic Vegetable Research Farm Field Day August 17, 4 ...
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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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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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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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An extensive article at the Rodale Institute website on Integrated Fruit Production (IFP) features some familiar faces here in the Department of Horticulture: “Greg Peck, a post-doctoral associate at Cornell University in Ithaca, New ...
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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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From Violet Stone, NY SARE Outreach Coordinator comes the Spring, 2009 Issue of the NY Sustainable Ag Quarterly. “You will read about the many creative approaches farms and organizations in NY are taking toward ...
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