News and views from the Department of Horticulture
If you missed the last two Horticulture Section seminars, they are available online:
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If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, Cover crops for enhancing soil health in vegetable production with Thomas Björkman, Horticulture Section, it is available online.
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If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, The Challenges of Farming in New York City with Yolanda Gonzalez and Sam Anderson, Cornell Cooperative Extension, it is available online.
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If you missed Tuesday’s Graduate Field of Horticulture exit seminar, Roots and rhizosphere interactions of temperate forest tree species in a changing climate with Marie Zwetsloot, PhD candidate, it is available online.
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If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, Hands-on Learning in Horticulture with Jacqueline Ricotta, Delaware Valley University, it is available online.
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If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, A sweet journey – Structural and physiological constraints on phloem transport with Jessica Savage, University of Minnesota, Duluth, it is available online.
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If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, Tropical Plant Exploration, Introduction and Evaluation for the 21st Century with Chad Husby, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden, it is available online.
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If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, Growing the lost crops of eastern North America: Developmental plasticity in plant domestication with Natalie Mueller, post-doctoral fellow, Horticulture Section, it is available online.
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Donn Branton of Branton Farms illustrates the connection between water quality and soil health by showing two samples of water, one cloudy with sediment from the creek entering his property and the other with clear water that exits his farm.
Cornell Chronicle, CALS News [2019-07-27]:
New York government policy and nonprofit leaders, researchers, farmers and agricultural professionals from 40 organizations attended the first statewide Soil Health Summit July 18 in Albany, New York. It was organized by New York Soil Health, which is funded by the state’s Environmental Protection Fund and coordinated by Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).
“The setting of this soil summit next to the state capital was by intention,” said David Wolfe, Cornell professor of plant and soil ecology and program lead for New York Soil Health. He said New York has been at the forefront of the global soil health movement and summit participants would discuss where to go from here.
“We were pleased to have representatives from Gov. Cuomo’s administration and agency partners as well as representatives from the state Senate and Assembly in attendance,” said Wolfe. “The summit goals were to expand collaboration among the many farmers and organizations working on soil health issues, and also to identify research, outreach and policy priorities for the future.”
Topics included economic analyses of soil health costs and benefits; the relationship between soil health and climate change; addressing challenges of reducing tillage on vegetable farms; soil health for apple orchard systems; fortifying biochar with manure wastes as marketable fertilizer; and research on cover crop interseeding and perennial grains.
1:00 to 2:30 p.m. – Student presenters:
2:30 to 3:00 p.m. – Student poster session:
3:00 to 4:30 p.m. – Student presenters:
Questions? Contact Leah Cynara Cook lcc2@cornell.edu
