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Research team tackles top pests that scourge organic crops – A $2 million grant from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative will fund ...
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Annual flower trial updates
When you’re planning what annual flowers to grow in your garden or containers next season, check out the 2012 gallery at the Bluegrass Lane Annual Flower Trials website. Last year was the ninth season ...
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CALS will continue to evolve its education program – Reaccreditation for the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) will not be pursued when the current accreditation expires Dec. 31, 2013. “We ...
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Fall Issue of periodiCALS (formerly CALS News)
The Fall 2012 issue of periodiCALS (formerly CALS News) is available online. Some items of horticultural interest include: Evolution of the Land Grant Mission – Feature story quotes Anu Rangarajan: “Our Northeast Beginning Farmers ...
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Video: Students create botanical fashion show
Update – New video: Botanical fashion show in 100 seconds October 15, 2012, three students from the Art of Horticulture class at Cornell University create outfits made from plant materials — and tell ...
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Greenhouse vegetable shortcourse Dec. 5-6
Greenhouse vegetable shortcourse Dec. 5-6, 2012 Kenneth Post Laboratory Greenhouse Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Topics include: Nutrient delivery in hydroponic crops Lighting Considerations Water quality: pH, alkalinity, and acidification Crop selection for hydroponic vegetable production Risk ...
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Peters to talk about Land-Grant Mission
From Cornell Chronicle, 10/11/2012: Scott J. Peters (right) will give a public lecture about the Morrill Act, the basis 150 years ago of Cornell’s founding as a land-grant university, Oct. 18 at 4 p.m. ...
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Vineyard Geomatics seminar
If you missed this week’s department seminar, New adventures in vineyard geomatics with Andy Reynolds, Professor of Viticulture, Cool Climate Oenology & Viticulture Institute, Brock University, it’s now available online.
Soils for the Urban Eden: New course, Spring 2013
Soils for the Urban Eden Hort/CSS 4930 More info: amp4@cornell.edu 2 credits Meets first 7 weeks of the semester Tuesdays and Thursdays Lecture: 1:25-2:15 Lab: 2:30-4:25 Prerequisites: Hort/LA 4910 and 4920 or CSS 2600 ...
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Students create ‘greeter’ at Cornell Plantations
Eight students in the Art of Horticulture (HORT 2010) fashioned a 7-foot-tall ‘greeter’ outside the Nevin Welcome Center at Cornell Plantations. They wove and lashed the sculpture out of grapevines and contorted willow and ...
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