If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, What did they really eat? A critical analysis of the food value in the Three Sisters, with Jane Mt Pleasant, Associate Professor, Horticulture Section, it’s available online. More ...
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From Erica Frenay, Online Course Coordinator, Cornell Small Farms Program: Winter is a great time for farmers to rest, slow down the pace, and build new skills for the coming growing season. The Cornell ...
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Via Cornell Chronicle Uma Bioseed – a Cornell student business startup formed in partnership with another Cornell startup’s technology – won $500,000 in the 43Northincubator competition in Buffalo, New York, Oct. 29. ...
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Senior Extension Associate Tim Martinson received the CALS award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Extension and Outreach at the CALS Research, Extension and Staff Awards ceremony November 3. The award “recognizes individuals who have demonstrated leadership in ...
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If you missed Monday’s Horticulture Section seminar, Chlorophyll fluorescence as a tool for biofeedback control of photosynthetic lighting with Marc van Iersel, Department of Horticulture, University of Georgia, it’s available online. More seminar videos: Horticulture | ...
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A Cornell research project applying cutting-edge genetic and genomic approaches to rust resistance in shrub willows has received a $1 million grant from the Plant Feedstocks Genomics for Bioenergy program, a partnership between the ...
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David Wolfe in The Hill : “… Farmers are on the front lines of climate change, and while they may not all call it by that name or agree about the causes, the vast ...
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Patrick McLoughlin ’16 was one of 17 students nationwide awarded scholarships from the American Floral Endowment. The senior Plant Sciences major received the Long Island Flower Growers Association (LIFGA) Scholarship. McLoughlin is interested in the ...
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The Fall 2015 issue of periodiCALS. Some of the articles of horticultural interest include: Larry Smart‘s shrub willow bioenergy project is featured in Forage and Fuel: Feeding the Global Appetites Nina Bassuk’s CU Structural Soil and ...
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The Buffalo News : …California has long been the top producer of the nutritiously dense and once maligned vegetable. That state produces more than 95 percent of all broccoli grown in the United States. ...
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