Food Systems & Health
A rich trove of once-hidden Cornell agricultural research from journals and other serial publications is now available to the public Cornell University Library collaborated with Kathryn J Boor ’80, the Ronald P Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and...
For optimal yield and fruit quality, apple growers in the United States have long relied on chemical solutions to generate spring blossom thinning to promote the growth of larger, higher-quality fruit by giving them less competition for carbohydrate However, in...
For more than a year, as drought spread across the Northeast, agricultural fields went parched, crops withered, wells ran dry During the worst drought since the 1960s, irrigated farms in the Northeast suffered crop losses of up to 35 percent; for unirrigated...
For food entrepreneurs, the bitter battles between small and large companies are increasingly giving way to collaboration in the quest for better-tasting, high-quality food Companies of all sizes are finding synergies in the face of consumer demand for locally...
Dig into digital agriculture, comprehend plant breeding and biotechnology, and find out how the microbiome may solve food production problems at an agricultural technology and partnership forum June 7, hosted by the Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell...
By the time Andrew Pochedly came to Cornell last fall to pursue a Master of Professional Studies degree in horticulture, he already had a great deal of professional experience under his belt As a Peace Corps volunteer, he helped to develop sustainable agriculture...
From dairy robotics and precision farming technology to the chemistry of wine making and integrated pest management, jobs in agriculture dot a diverse and varied career map in the Finger Lakes Helping area high school students navigate ag-related vocational...
For breeders of cassava, a staple food for hundreds of millions in the tropics, producing improved varieties has been getting harder over time A team at Cornell used genomic analysis of cassava varieties and wild relatives to make a diagnosis: Mutations have...
They say you are what you eat But that may not be true for vegetarians A Cornell undergraduate and his academic adviser have come up with a new way to think about vegetarians And it’s not just about what’s on their plates The new theory proposes that...
Senior Adam Shelepak has been named the 2017 winner of the Cornell University Relations’ Campus-Community Leadership Award The annual honor is presented to a graduating senior who has shown exceptional town-gown leadership and innovation Among his many...
State officials are embracing industrial hemp as a lucrative addition to New York agriculture as regulations are relaxed around a versatile plant with the potential to thrive in the state Gov Andrew M Cuomo convened the first-ever Industrial Hemp Summit on...